MA 351 Section 041/011, Fall 2023

Elementary Linear Algebra 

Lectures: UNIV 119,  MWF Section 041: 9:30-10:20 am;  Section 011: 10:30-11:20 am

Instructor: Xiangxiong Zhang

Office: MATH 406

Email: zhan1966@purdue.edu

Office Hours: Wednesday 3pm-5pm (or by appointment).

• Announcement
  • NO CLASSES on Sep 4 (Labor day)  Oct 12 (October break) and Nov 22-24 (Thanksgiving).
  • Tentative in-class midterm exam dates: Sep 27 (Midterm I) and Nov 08 (Midterm II).

• Course information

• Textbook:  Introduction to Linear Algebra, Sixth Edition (2023) by Gilbert Strang.
• Weekly handwritten homework is due through Gradescope (linked in Brightspace) before class on each Wednesday. Grades and solutions will be posted on Brightspace. Late homework will not be accepted but the lowest two scores of homework will be dropped in the final grading.

• Syllabus.
• Schedule, handwritten homework assignments, and due dates ( subject to change).

Week	Dates	Sections in Book	Homework	Due Dates
1	08/21	Introduction Chapter 1;Section 2.1-2.2   Lecture Notes 1 Lecture Notes 2 Lecture Notes 3	HW#1	09/06
	08/23
	08/25
2	08/28	Lecture Notes 4	HW#2	09/06
	08/30	Lecture Notes 5
	09/01	Lecture Notes 6
3	09/04	NO CLASS	HW#3	09/13
	09/06	Lecture Notes 7
	09/08	Lecture Notes 8
4	09/11	Lecture Notes 9	HW#4	09/20
	09/13	Lecture Notes 10
	09/15	Lecture Notes 11
5	09/18	Lecture Notes 12	NO HW; Do practice problems posted on Brightspace (under Content->Solutions)
	09/20	Lecture Notes 13
	09/22	Lecture Notes 14
6	09/25	Review	NO HW
	09/27	Midterm I
	09/29	Section 4.3, 4.2 Lecture Notes 15
7	10/02	Section 4.3, 4.4 Lecture Notes 16	HW#5	10/11
	10/04	Section 4.4 Lecture Notes 17
	10/06	Lecture Notes 18
8	10/09	NO CLASS	HW#6	10/18
	10/11	Lecture Notes 19
	10/13	Lecture Notes 20
9	10/16	Lecture Notes 21	HW#7	10/25
	10/18	Lecture Notes 22
	10/20	Lecture Notes 23
10	10/23	Lecture Notes 24	HW#8	11/01
	10/25	Lecture Notes 25
	10/27	Same as Notes 25
11	10/30	Lecture Notes 26	NO HW; Do practice problems posted on Brightspace (under Content->Solutions)
	11/01	Lecture Notes 27
	11/03	Lecture Notes 28
12	11/06	Review	NO  HW
	11/08	Midterm II
	11/10	Lecture Notes 29
13	11/13	Lecture Notes 30	Last HW: HW#9	Nov 29
	11/15	Lecture Notes 31
	11/17	Lecture Notes 32
14	11/20	Review	Thanksgiving Break
	11/22	NO CLASS
	11/24
15	11/27	Lecture Notes 33	NO HW; Do the final practice problems posted on Brightspace (under Content->Solutions)
	11/29	Lecture Notes 34
	12/01
16	12/04	Review	Office hour for this week is Monday Dec 4 1:30-4pm
	12/06	NO CLASS
	12/08	Review
17	12/11	Final Exam Thursday 12/14    3:30p - 5:30p    MTHW 210
	12/13
	12/15