640:250 Linear Algebra, Fall 2005

Catalog Description

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.

General Information

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).

The authors of the textbook also have a companion   web site containing supplementary material, including true-false tests.

Course Materials

The pace of the syllabus and the timing of the mid-term exams will vary from section to section. Each section has its own midterm and final exam.

Individual Sections

There are twelve regular sections of Math 250 this semester. There are also three sections of the course using MATLAB 640:250C

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 Gonzalez
02 TF2 SC-104 Serconek
03 MTh1 SEC-218 Vasconcelos
04 MTh2 ARC-204 Luo
05 TF1 ARC-206 Li
06 TF2 SEC-203 Petrie
07 TTh5 ARC-204 Taft
08 TTh6 SEC-208 Taft
No sections 9 or 10
11 MW6 BE-003 Weingart
No sections 12 or 13
14 MTh1 WAL-210 Weingart
No sections 15 or 16
17 MW8 FH-A3 DeGournay
18 TTh7 HH B2 Serconek


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Last updated: August 22, 2005 by Roe Goodman