MTH 353 Applied Linear Algebra

Instructor: Steven J. Leon , Department of Mathematics
Office: Group I-394D        Office hours: Tu,Wed,Th 2:00-3:15,
Email: sleon@umassd.edu     phone: 999-8320 
You can link to the MTH 353 Spring 2008 Webpage from the instructor's homepage:
 http://www.umassd.edu/cas/mathematics/people/leon/
Textbooks: Linear Algebra With Applications, 7th ed., by S. J. Leon,
ATLAST Computer Exercises for Linear Algebra, 2nd ed.
Homework: Homework assignments are listed below for each of the sections. Homework will be collected and graded.
Exams: There will be 2 in-class exams worth 100 points each and possibly a third exam worth 50 points.  There will be a final exam worth 200 points. No makeups unless you have a note from your doctor. The exams will be closed book. You are not allowed to use notes during the exam. Hand calculators may be used for arithmetic and to check your answers, but you must show all of your work in solving exam problems. If you have a correct answer to a problem, but have not shown your work, you may not receive any credit for the problem. Exams are not graded on a curve.
Grading:
Your grade for the course will be based on how well you score on the homework, in-class exams, and the final exam.
Academic integrity: Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Any student caught cheating on an exam will receive an F for the course and a note will be sent to the Dean regarding the incident. This could result in the expulsion of the student from the university. Academic dishonesty includes using crib notes, copying from another student or letting another student copy from you during an exam.
 
UNIT 1: Orthogonality
Topics: 1 - Scalar Product and Orthogonality in R n

2 - Orthogonal Subspaces

3 - Least Squares Problems

4 - Inner Products and Norms

5 - Orthonormal Sets

6 - Orthogonal Matrices

7 - Gram-Schmidt Process

8 - QR Factorization from Gram-Schmidt Process
Assignments: Chapter 5
Section: 5.1 Exercises 1 - 3 parts a and c, 4 , 5, 12, 13, 15, 18

5.2 Exercises 1 - 4, 6 - 9, 12 - 17

5.3 Exercises 1 - 6, 9  -14

5.4 Exercises 1 - 4, 7 - 9, 15, 16, 19 - 24, 26,  28, 30


5.5 Exercises 1 - 8, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17,  19 - 25, 28, 31

5.6 Exercises 1 - 5, 7, 8, 11, 12

MATLAB Exercises or projects

Review of Unit 1
Test 1 Exam covering Sections 5.1-5.6
UNIT 2: Eigenvalues
Topics: 9 - Review of Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors and Diagonalization 

10 - The Matrix Exponential

11 - Applications to Linear Systems of Differential Equations

12 - Hermitian Matrices

13 - Singular Value Decomposition

14 - Quadratic Forms and Optimization

15 - Positive Definite Matrices
Assignments: Chapter 6
Section: 6.2 Exercises 1a, c, e, 2 a, c, 3, 4, 5a

6.3 Exercises 20, 22, 24, 26, 27 a, c, 28a, c, 30, 31


6.4 Exercises 1 - 4, 5 a, c, e, g, 6, 9, 12b, c, 15, 18, 22, 23

6.5 Exercises 1 - 7, 8, 10


6.6 Exercises 1,6, 7a,c,e,f, 8 - 14

6.7 Exercises 1a, c, 2, 3, 4 a, c, 5 a, c, 6, 8 - 11, 13

MATLAB Exercises

Review of Unit 2
Test 2  Exam covering all of unit 2
UNIT 3: Numerical Linear Algebra
Topics: 15 - Solving Linear Systems with Pivoting 

16 - Matrix Norms and Condition Numbers

17 - Householder Transformations

18 - Rotations and Reflections

19 - The Eigenvalue Problem

20 - Least Squares Problems
Assignments: Chapter 7
Section: 7.4 Exercises 1,  7 - 18, 24, 28-30, 33, 34


7.5 Exercises 1, 2 a, c, 3 a, c, 4 - 6, 7a, c, 11-16

7.6 Exercises 1- 8, 11, 12a

7.7 Exercises 1 - 3, 6 - 11 

MATLAB Exercises
Test 3  Exam covering all or part of unit 3 (if time allows)
Final exam:
Comprehensive exam over all sections covered during the semester