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.
All summer sections of Math 250 are taught in the regular format. During the fall and spring semesters there is also a section which uses MATLAB.
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, 2nd Edition , Prentice-Hall (ISBN # 978-0-13-187141-0).
The authors of the textbook also have a companion web site containing supplementary material, including true-false tests.A suggested syllabus has been prepared as a pdf file and as a postscript file. Please note that the lecture schedule indicated in this syllabus is based on a 14 week semester. Summer sections will therefore follow a different lecture by lecture schedule, but will cover the same topics. 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.
Some of the entries in the following table are links to special information for
individual sections or home pages of instructors.
| B1 | MTWTh 10:00-11:50AM | ARC-105 | Scott Schneider |
| B6 | MWF 6:00-8:30PM | ARC-105 | John Bryk |
| E1 | MTWTh 10:10AM-12:00PM | HH-A3 | Mine Subasi |
| E6 | MWF 6:00-8:30PM | RAB 110-A | Tianling Jin |
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