640:250 Linear Algebra, Spring 2003

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).

A student solution manual may be ordered from this site (but is not required for the course). The Rutgers bookstore sells the text bundled with the student solution manual.

The authors of the textbook also have a companion   web site containing supplementary material.

A suggested syllabus has been prepared as a pdf file and as a postscript file. There is also a list of suggested homework problems as a pdf file and a postscript file. Individual instructors may modify the syllabus and homework problems for their sections.

Individual Sections

There are thirteen sections of 250 this semester in the regular format. There are also two sections of 640:250C Introduction to Linear Algebra with MATLAB .

Some of the entries in the following table are links to special information for individual sections or home pages of instructors. The building names are links to a campus map.
 
01 MW4 SC-203 Cherlin
02 MW6 FH-B6 Leavitt
03 MTh1 ARC-105 Miller
04 MW6 SEC-216 Soffer
05 TF2 MU-212 Beals
No section 06
07 TF3 SEC-218 Korchagina
08 TTh5 SEC-207 Carbone
09 TTh6 SEC-211 Korchagina
10 MTh2 LSH-B112 Leingang
No section number 11
12 TTh6 TIL-105 Blank
13 MW5 RAB-207 Shtelen
No section numbers 14, 15, 16, 17
18 MW8 SC-119 Gindikin
19 TTh7 PH-115 Wilson
No section number 20



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Last updated: February 28, 2003