Course Description
-- Math 310 -- Spring 2008Instructor: Louis H. Kauffman
Office: 533 SEO
Phone: (312) 996-3066
E-mail: kauffman@uic.edu
Web page: http://www.math.uic.edu/~kauffman
Text Book: Linear Algebra with Applications - Seventh Edition, by Steven Leon
We will cover the first six chapters of Leon's text. This includes matrices and systems of linear equations, determinants, vector spaces, linear transformations, orthogonality and eigenvalues.
There will be two hour exams and one final exam. Homework is collected each week and graded. Your homework record will help in deciding your final grade in the course.
See TakeHomeExam. This is your take-home exam. It is due on Wednesday, April 30, 2008. No later!
Mathematics Department Course Description - Syllabus and Links Math 310 Information.
See Homework Problems for the list of assignments and the dates of the exams. The first exam is Wednesday, February 20, 2008 and the second exam is Friday,April 4, 2008.
See Wang Algebra for a clever approach to graphs and spanning trees.
See Diagrammatic Matrix Algebra -- pdf Download for notes on matrix algebra and diagrams. This is a pdf file and it will probably come to you upside down! Use the rotate button on your pdf viewer. This button causes the entire universe to rotate by ninety degrees with respect to your viewing screen. Two applications of the rotate button should suffice to view the file. This file will be added to from time to time during the course.
See SuperProblemSet -- pdf Download for Steve Hurder's mammoth review problem set for basic Linear Algebra. This is an excellent tool for use in studying for the Final Exam.
See BasicProblemSet -- pdf Download a subset of the above problem set for basic Linear Algebra. Our final exam will be partially selected from the types of problems on this subset.