MATH 20F: Linear Algebra, Winter quarter 2002:

Preliminary Syllabus

We will use the book `Linear Algebra with Applications', 6th Edition, by Steven Leon. The following syllabus is only a rough outline (we may occasionally skip or add some material, or we may move slower or faster depending on how the class goes)

Lec. 1: Sec 1.1: Systems of linear equations.

Lec. 2: Sec 1.2: Row echelon form.

Lec. 3-4: Sec 1.3: Matrix algebra; Consistency Theorem.

Lec. 5: Sec 1.4: Elementary matrices; triangular (LU) factorization.

Lec. 6: Sec 1.5: Partitioned matrices. (might get skipped)

Lec. 7: Sec 2.1: The determinant.

Lec. 8: Sec 2.2: Properties of determinants.

Lec. 9: Sec 3.1: Euclidean vector spaces, pp. 125-129.

Lec. 10-11: Sec 3.2: Subspaces.

Lec. 12: Sec 3.3: Linear independence.

Lec. 13: Sec 3.4: Basis and dimension.

Lec. 14: Sec 3.5: Change of basis, pp. 163-169.

Lec. 15: Sec 3.6: Row space and column space.

Lec. 16: Sec 5.1: Scalar products, Cauchy-Schwarz, projections.

Lec. 17: Sec 5.2: Orthogonal subspaces.

Lec. 18: Sec 5.3: Least squares problems.

Lec. 19: Sec 5.5: Orthonormal sets; orthogonal matrices, pp.270-274.

Lec. 20: Sec 5.6: Gram-Schmidt; QR factorization, pp. 290-296.

Lec. 21-22: Sec 6.1: Eigenvalues and eigenvectors; similar matrices.

Lec. 23: Sec 6.3: Diagonalization by similarity.

Lec. 24-25: Sec 6.4: Hermitian matrices; Schur's Theorem; Spectral Theorem; normal matrices.

Lec. 26: Sec 6.5: Singular Value Decomposition

Lec. 27: Sec 6.6: Quadratic forms.

Lec. 28: Sec 6.7: Positive definite matrices.

Lec. 29: Review??