Math 235 Fall 2004 Instructor Wolkowicz page

Math 235
Fall 2004

Linear Algebra 2
Webpage for Instructor Henry Wolkowicz


Section:	Instructor:	Lecture Time:	Office Hours:
02 MC4021	Henry Wolkowicz	9:30-10:20MWF	T 1:30-2:30, F 2-3
03 MC4021	Henry Wolkowicz	11:30-12:20MWF	T 1:30-2:30 F 2-3

WARNING/REMINDER: Copying assignments is contrary to University policy. You must work on your assignments on your own.

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**** Lecture Outlines, Assignments, Solutions, Links, ... The lecture outlines include links to MATLAB files.

U. of W. ANGEL Course Environment, Official Course Webpage
and Yulia Gel's Web Page with Problems/Links

Final Grades are available. The final exam was 'weighted', i.e. if your mark in the final exam is M: replace M with M+12 if M is less or equal to 81;
other wise M becomes (M+105)/2.
(sorted by student ID) Latest Grades Section 2 and Section 3. Please check your grades regularly. Missing grades might appear in the wrong section.

pdf file: Courseoutline;

Midterm Problems and Solutions , and Matlab Bonus Question Solution , and
midterm marking comments file 002,003. ( PLEASE read the comments/solutions before asking about the marking. AND be aware that by remarking one problem, the other problems get remarked as well.)

Final Exam date: Thursday, Dec 16, 1400-1700, at PAC 1,2,3,4,5
The exam will contain proofs which may or may not be from Theorems in the text. No list of Theorems/proofs is provided.
Sections 2,3,4 will have a MATLAB bonus question; while Sections 1,5,6 will require a proof about complex inner product spaces.

See the bottom of this link for sample exams (choose only relevant questions)

sample exam From Prof. Gel

The last problem session is scheduled for Monday December 6, from 5:30 'til 7:00PM in RCH 101.

Notes:

Math235 students can access matlab from the unix machines in MC3008 and MC6080, the math labs. (Students from outside the faculty will have to come to MC3011 to have their account password set by the consultants.)
Link to MIT, linear algebra with VIDEOS!!!,
- See the bottom of the page for sample exams.
EIGENVALUES: The World's Largest Matrix Computation (at google); with a short explanation.
MATLAB
- student center at MathWorks (tutorials)
- matlab tutorial ( 8 pages, by Peter Blossey, the other UofW); matlab tutorial using matrices; also, see the MATLAB video course at Univ. of Waterloo SAW courses
- information (used at MIT):
- MATLAB on Athena
- One Short MATLAB Tutorial and another Short MATLAB Tutorial and another Short MATLAB Tutorial
- MATLAB Teaching Codes
- Best Guide to MATLAB
- Cool MATLAB demos by The Mathworks.
- MATLAB Recitation Demos from 1997
Math Forum at Drexel. With discussion groups, Ask Dr. Math, Problems of the Week, ... e.g. see Q&A College Level and Beyond; linear Algebra archives
History of Matrices and determinants. (Sylvester originated the term matrix.)
Summer Undergraduate Research Program in C & O
Essay from Gilbert Strang on importance of Linear Algebra.
On the Centrality of Linear Algebra in the Curriculum, by Carl C. Cowen, at The Mathematical Association of America.
Further exercises in matlab can be obtained from the ATLAST Project at the Library of ATLAST M-files
Also: VLA - Visual Linear Algebra, which runs using matlab on PCs.
The Cayley-Hamilton Theorem; Also some historical papers and a simple proof by Dr. Math. misc
Teaching Linear Algebra, LAA article by Frank Uhlig; CScilab; Appl. Lin. Alg and Num. Anal. (MATLAB) at the other UofW;

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