M346, Applied Linear Algebra

Unique number: 57065

Meeting time and place: MWF 9-10,  RLM 7.116.

Web page: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/sadun/S09/346

Professor: Lorenzo Sadun, RLM 9.114, x1-7121

email: sadun@math.utexas.edu

Office hours: Th11-12, F3-5   I generally keep an open door and welcome visitors at all times. 

Textbook: Applied Linear Algebra, 2nd edition, by Lorenzo Sadun. Do not get the first edition! The first edition had a huge number of printing errors, the second edition has a lot of new content, and the second edition is priced at about half the first edition.

Prerequisites: M311 or M340L or M341 or permission of instructor

Syllabus: Chapters 1 through 8, with occasional skipped sections

Homework: There will be weekly problem sets, due in class.  At the beginning of the term these will be due on Monday, but we may switch to another day later on.

Exams: There will be three in-class midterm exams, on February 11, March 27 and April 24, plus a final exam on May 19, 9-12.   These exams will all be closed book. However, each student will be allowed to bring a single letter-sized ``crib sheet'' (2-sided) to each midterm, and 2 crib sheets to the final. These notes must be HANDWRITTEN ORIGINALS - NO XEROXING ALLOWED.

Grading: Each midterm counts 20%. The final exam counts 40%. The homework, taken together, counts 20%. At the end of the term I will drop your lowest 20%. The final grade distribution is neither a straight scale nor a fixed curve. It depends on how well the class does as a whole, but I hope to give mostly A's and B's.

Disabilities: The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-4641 TTY

Homework # 1: (due Monday, January 26) Chapter 1, page 7, exercises 1, 2, 5. For extra credit, do the "exploration" on page 8.