MAS-5145 – Applied Linear Algebra – Summer A 2013  MWF 7:30-9:45pm DM 164  

 

Textbook: Applied Linear Algebra by Lorenzo Sadun, ISBN 0-13-085645-2

 

Instructor: Tedi Draghici 

Office: DM 432B  Phone: (305) 348‑2028       E-mail: draghici@fiu.edu

Office Hours: MWF 6:15-7:15pm.      Web: http://www.fiu.edu/~draghici/  

 

Method of Evaluation: Your final grade in the course is based on:

 

  1. Homework: 100 points. These will be announced in class and on the course website. Late homework may be accepted, but with possible deductions.
  2. Midterm exam: 100 points – TBA; 
  3. FINAL EXAM: 150 points – TBA.

 

 

Grade-scale: The following percentages will guarantee the associated grade:

             > 90  : A    80-85 : B     65-75 : C      < 50 : F

             88-90 : A-   78-80 : B-    55-65 : D   

             85-88 : B+   75-78 : C+    50-55 : D-

 

 

NO MAKEUP EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN. If you have a documented medical or professional excuse for missing the midterm, that percentage of your grade may be made up on the final.

 

Expectation: I expect you to have a good feel for manipulating matrices, especially row reduction, but also taking determinants. Please review the appendix of this book ASAP. I will also leave a copy of Steven Leon’s Linear Algebra book in DM 416. You can consult it there, but don’t take it away from that area. I expect you to have seen abstract vector spaces and linear transformations, but some rustiness is acceptable -- we'll be reviewing that (at a fast pace though). We will cover eigenvalues and eigenvectors in detail;

ok, if you have not seen anything about them prior to this course. You are expected to have a reasonable maturity in conceiving and writing mathematical proofs.

 

Attendance: I don’t take attendance, but I hope you will find it useful to be in class. Try to arrive and leave on time.

 

Drop deadline:  Monday, June 10.

 

Tentative schedule: We will cover most of Chapters 1-7 + eventual handouts.

                     

 

   

The instructor reserves the right to make any changes he considers academically advisable. These eventual changes would be announced in class and you are responsible to be aware of them.