M346, Applied Linear Algebra
First Day Handout

Unique number: 56120

Meeting time and place: Tu-Th 12:30-2:00,  RLM 5.116.

Web page: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/gamba/F01/m346.htlm

Professor: Irene M. Gamba, RLM 10.166, X1-7150

email: gamba@math.utexas.edu

Office hours:Thrusdays 10:30-11:30 and by appointment.

Textbook: Applied Linear Algebra, by Lorenzo Sadun (strongly recommended), Linear Algebra, By Peter Lax (recommended)

Prerequisites: M311 or M340L or M341 or permission of instructor

Syllabus: Chapters 1 through 8, with occasional skipped sections

Homework: There will be weekly problem sets, due in class on Tuesday.

Exams: There will be two in-class midterm exams, tentatively on September 22 and November 3, plus a final exam on December (TBA).  These exams will all be closed book. However, each student will be allowed to bring a single letter-sized ``crib sheet'' (2-sided) to each midterm, and 2 crib sheets to the final. These notes must be HANDWRITTEN ORIGINALS - NO XEROXING ALLOWED.

Grading: Each midterm counts 25%. The final exam counts 50%. The homework, taken together, counts 25%. At the end of the term I will drop your lowest 25%. The final grade distribution is neither a straight scale nor a fixed curve. It depends on how well the class does as a whole, but I hope to give mostly A's and B's.

Disabilities: The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-4641 TTY

Homework # 1: Chapter 1, exercises 1-7