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MA 54-02, Spring 2004: Syllabus
Outline and homework assignments

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MA 54-02, Spring 2004
Outline and Homework assignments

Date Sections Topics covered Homework assignments
       
1/28  s. 1.1  Definition of a vector space. Examples # 1.1-1.4
1/30  s. 1.2  Basis, linear independence, generating (complete) sets  Click here to see the assignment
       
2/2 s.1.3 Linear transformations. Matrix-vector multiplication Click here to see the assignment
(will be collected 2/4)
2/4 s. 1.4 Composition of Linear transformations. Matrix Multiplication. Click here to see the assignment 
Solutions, PDF, 57K
2/6 s. 1.5 Invertible transformations and matrices. Isomorphisms Click here to see the assignment
Solutions, PDF, 37 K
       
2/9 s. 1.7, read 1.6
new version
Applications to computer graphics Click here to see the assignment
2/11 Ch. 2. s. 1, 2 Many faces of linear systems. Solving linear systems by row reduction Click here to see the assignment
2/13 Ch 2 s. 3 What can be said from analysis of pivots. Inverting matrices Click here to see the assignment
To be collected 2/16
See solution of # 7 (PDF, 43 K)
       
2/16 Ch 1 s. 6, Ch 2 s. 4, 5, beginning of 6 Dimension, subspaces. Fundamental subspaces of a matrix Click here to see the assignment
Solutions, PDF, 68 K
2/18 Ch 2 s. 6 Computing fundamental subspaces. Rank Theorem. Click here to see the assignment
2/20 Ch 2 s. 6 Review of dimension and rank.  Click here to see the assignment
Also read s. 7 of Ch 2.
       
2/23

Long weekend

2/25 Ch 2 s 7 Change of basis formula  Click here to see the assignment   
(will be collected Fri. Feb. 27)
2/27  Ch. 3 S. 1--3 Determinants: Introduction, properties. Click here to see the assignment
       
3/1  Ch 3 s 3, 5  Determinants. Cofactor (row) expansion  Click here to see the assignment 
(will be collected Wed. March 3)
Solutions for #6, 5 (PDF, 105K)
3/3  Ch. 3 s. 5  Cofactor expansion, cofactor formula for the inverse, Cramer's rule  Click here to see the assignment 
3/5  Ch. 3 s. 4  Formal definition of determinant. Permutations.  Click here to see the assignment 
will be collected Mon. March 8.
       
3/8    
3/10 Test 1  Click here to see solutions for the test (PDF, 112 K)  Click here to see the assignment
3/12 Ch 4, s. 1, beginning of s. 2  Eigenvalues and eigenvectors  Click here to see the assignment
(will be collected Mon. March 15)
       
3/15  Ch. 4, s. 1,2  Diagonalization.  Click here to see the assignment
3/17  Ch. 4, s. 1,2  Diagonalization, bases of subspaces  Click here to see the assignment
3/19  Ch 5, s. 1  Inner product spaces.  Click here to see the assignment
(will be collected Mon. March 22)
       
3/22  Ch 5, s. 1, 2  Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Orthogonal and orthonormal basis.  Click here to see the assignment
3/24  Ch 5, s 3.  Orthogonal projection. Orthogonal complement.  Click here to see the assignment
2/26  Ch. 5 s. 3  Gram--Schmidt orthogonalization.  Click here to see the assignment
       
3/29

Spring recess

3/31
4/2
       
4/5  Ch. 5 s. 4  Least square solution. Formula for the orthogonal projection  Click here to see the assignment
will be collected 4/7
solutions 
4/7  Ch 5 s. 5  Adjoint operators. Fundamental subspaces revisited.  Click here to see the assignment
4/9  Ch. 5, s. 6  Isometries, unitary and orthogonal matrices   Click here to see the assignment
       
4/12  Ch. 6.s 1, 2  Schur (upper triangular) representation of a matrix. Spectral theorem for self-adjoint (Hermitian) matrices.  Click here to see the assignment
 Solutions
4/14  Ch 6. s 2.  Normal operators. Spectral theorem for normal operators.   Click here to see the assignment
\(to be collected 4/16)
Solutions (to selected problems)
4/16  Ch. 6 s. 3.1, 3.2  Positive definite and positive semidefinite operators. Modulus of an operator, singular values.   Click here to see the assignment
       
4/19  Review  
4/21 Test 2    
4/23   Ch 6 s. 3.3, 3.4.  Singular Value decomposition.   Click here to see the assignment
       
4/26  Ch. 6, s 3.3, 3.4. Read s. 4.  Singular Value Decomposition. Matrix form   Click here to see the assignment
(will be collected 4/28)
4/28  Ch. 6, s. 4  What SVD tells us about?   Click here to see the assignment
4/30  Ch 7, s. 1, 2  Quadratic forms. Diagonalization, orthogonal diagonalization.   Click here to see the assignment
       
5/3  Ch. & s 3, 4  Silvester Criterion of Positivity   Click here to see the assignment
5/5      
5/7      
       
5/10    Review for the final