21-241 Matrices and Linear Transformations - CMU Fall 2016 (Sec. F and G)

This is the webpage for Lecture 3 of 21-241 at CMU Fall 2016 semester. I will try to keep it clear and simple.

Instructor

Laurent Dietrich
Office: Wean Hall 7128
e-mail:
Office Hours: Mondays 4:00-6:00pm

Tutor

Andrew Zucker
Office: Wean Hall 7207
e-mail: andrewz at andrew dot cmu dot edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 10:30-11:20am

Syllabus

Can be downloaded here.

Schedule and Assignment

Lectures take place on MWF 12:30-1:20pm in Wean Hall 5403.
Recitations for Sec. F on Thursday 09:30-10:20am in Wean Hall 5310 and for Sec. G on 1:30-2:20pm in BH 235A.

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Week #1
Aug 29 - Sep 2
Assignment | S
M: Systems of linear equations. Vectors.
W: Matrices, row equivalence, operations.
F: Gaussian elimination, reduced row echelon form.
Week #2
Sep 5 - Sep 9
Assignment | S
M: Labor day, no class.
W: Statements, operators, quantifiers, negating a statement, definitions.
F: Theorems, proofs, proof techniques (contraposition, contradiction, induction, cases...)
Week #3
Sep 12 - Sep 16
Assignment | S
M: Abstract vector spaces. Subspaces.
W: Subspaces, spanning sets.
F: Geometry of linear equations in R^n : row by row, column by column, normal form approaches.
Week #4
Sep 19 - Sep 23
Assignment | Sol
M: Vector form and affine spaces.
W: Linear transformations.
F: Matrix algebra: product.
Week #5
Sep 26 - Sep 30
Assignment | Sol | S
M: Matrix algebra: properties, product partitioning, transpose.
W: Review and exercise session.
F: The inverse of a matrix.
Week #6
Oct 3 - Oct 7
Assignment | Sol | S
M: Midterm #1 and solution.
W: Elementary matrices, fundamental theorem of invertible matrices.
F: Columnspace, rowspace, nullspace of a matrix.
Week #7
Oct 10 - Oct 14
Assignment | Sol | S
M: Computing bases of row, column, and nullspaces.
W: Bases, dimension. Rank theorem.
F: Consequences of rank theorem. Coordinates.
Week #8
Oct 17 - Oct 21
Assignment | Sol | S
M: Introduction to eigenvalues.
W: Eigenspaces. Determinant. Laplace's expansion theorem.
F: Mid-semester break, no class.
Week #9
Oct 24 - Oct 28
Assignment | S
M: Elementary row and column operations and determinant.
W: Determinant of a product. Geometrical interpretation of det. Application: polynomial fitting.
F: Back to eigenvalues: existence, properties.
Week #10
Oct 31 - Nov 4
M: Matrix similarity. Diagonalizable matrices.
W: Diagonalization. Application to dynamical systems.
F: Applications.
Week #11
Nov 7 - Nov 11
Assignment | Sol.
M: Midterm #2 and solution.
W: Orthogonality.
F: Orthogonal matrices.
Week #12
Nov 14 - Nov 18
Assignment | Sol.
M: Orthogonal complement. Orthogonal projection.
W: Orthogonal direct sum. The Gram-Schmidt process 1/2.
F: The Gram-Schmidt process 2/2
Week #13
Nov 21 - Nov 25
M: Change of basis matrices.
W: Thanksgiving recess, no class.
F: Thanksgiving recess, no class.
Week #14
Nov 28 - Dec 2
Assignment | Sol.
M: The matrix of a linear transformation (Marco Caroccia).
W: Composition, product.
F: "Similar matrices are matrices of the same transformation in different bases".
Week #15
Dec 5 - Dec 9
M: Orthogonal diagonalization of real symmetric matrices.
W: Review & question session.
F: Review & question session.
Week #16
Dec 12 - Dec 16
M: Final exam and solution.
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