MATH1030C - Linear Algebra I - 2020/21

Announcement

• General Information [Download file]
• Assessment Scheme [Download file]
• Instructions on submission of work [Download file]

General Information

Lecturer

• Michael McBreen
  • Office: 235
  • Email:

Time and Venue

• Lecture: Michael McBreen's lectures are online on Tuesdays 0830-1015hrs, Thursdays 1530-1615hrs,
• Tutorial: T01 : Tuesdays 1430-1515hrs, T02: Wednesdays 0930-1015hr, T03: Thursdays 1430-1515hr, T04: Fridays 0930-1015hr. The tentative tutorial schedule is : Weeks 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13.

Lecture Notes

• Introduction to systems of linear equations
• Thursday 09 / 17 : Matrices
• Tuesday 09 / 21 : Operations with Matrices
• Thursday 09 / 23 : Matrix Multiplication
• Tuesday 09 / 29 : Row reduction
• Tuesday 10 / 06 : Solving with matrices
• Thursday 10 / 08 : Nullspaces
• Tuesday 10 / 13 : Homogeneous Equations and linear combinations
• Thursday 10 / 15 : Linear Combinations and nullspace
• Thursday 10 / 15 : The Lost Proposition
• Tuesday 10 / 20 : Span and linear independence
• Thursday 10 / 22 : Basis of a subspace
• Tuesday 10 / 27 : More about bases
• Thursday 10 / 29 : Nonsingular Matrices
• Tuesday 11 / 03 : Row spaces
• Thursday 11 / 05 : Every subspace has a basis
• Tuesday 11 / 10 : Rank and Nullity, Matrix inverses
• Thursday 11 / 12 : Matrix inverses, part 2
• Tuesday 11 / 17 : Determinants
• Thursday 11 / 19 : no class
• Tuesday 11 / 24 : Cramer's rule and Eigenvalues
• Thursday 11 / 26 : Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
• Tuesday 12 / 01 : Diagonalisation, inner products
• Thursday 12 / 03 : Gram Schmidt

Class Notes

• Key points so far (updated November 13)

Useful Links

• Course material (for example, tutorial sheets and assignment sheets) common to all sections
• Submission of course work for assessment
• Common course website for all sections

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