01:640:250. INTRODUCTORY LINEAR ALGEBRA (3) Prerequisite: CALC2. Systems of linear equations, Gaussian elimination, matrices and determinants, vectors in two- and three-dimensional Euclidean space, vector spaces, introduction to eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Possible additional topics: systems of linear inequalities and systems of differential equations.
More about the course and its history can be found from the main course page.
The textbook for this course is
Spence, Insel, & Friedberg: Elementary Linear Algebra: A Matrix Approach , Prentice-Hall (ISBN # 0-13-716722-9).
A student solution manual may be ordered from this site (but is not required for the course).
The authors of the textbook also have a companion web site containing supplementary material.A suggested syllabus (PDF Format) (Postscript Format) and list of homework problems (PDF Format) (Postscript Format) has been prepared. The instructors may modify these. In particular, the timing of the mid-term exams will vary from section to section.
The sections in the following table are color coded by campus. The
third entry in each row of this table is the Building and Room for the
section; to obtain the location of the building, click here for the Rutgers campus map
home page. The fourth entry in the row is the instructor's name;
click on the name for special information for the section or the home
page of the instructor, if it exists.
| 01 | MW5 | SC-102 | Kruskal |
| 02 | TF2 | SC-104 | Buhl |
| 03 | MTH1 | ARC-204 | Vasconcelos |
| 04 | MTH2 | ARC-204 | Gindikin |
| 05 | TF1 | ARC-206 | Knop |
| 06 | TF2 | SEC-203 | Petrie |
| 07 | TTh5 | ARC-204 | Taft |
| 08 | TTh6 | SEC-208 | Taft |
| No sections 9 or 10 | |||