- Instructor: George Cain
- Office hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9:30 - 10:00 a.m.,
and 11:00 - 11:30
a.m., and any other time I am in my office.
- Meeting Places & Times: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10:05
- 10:55 a.m., Room 256, Skiles
Classroom Building
- Class roll: Please take a look at what the Office of the
Registrar says is the current official roll for
the class. If you do not find your name where you believe it should be,
see the Registrar's Office as soon as you can.
- Important notice: Please read this important
notice.
- Textbook: Linear Algebra, by Tom M. Apostol
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997). A nice reference available on-line
(free!) is Linear Algebra,
by Jim Hefferon..
- Quizzes: There will be one short (ten-fifteen
minute) quiz each Friday of the semester, and there will, of course, be
a final examination. The final examination is scheduled by the Office of
the Registrar. There are to be no other quizzes or tests.
You will be allowed to use any books, notes, tables, or calculators
you wish on the quizzes and the final examination.
- Homework: You can find the homework assignments here.
These are not to be handed in, but it is most important that you have a
go at them. They will form the basis of much of the class discussion and
some of the problems might even appear on the quizzes. There will be special
homework to be handed in almost every Monday.
Here is the homework for you to hand in.
- Grades: Your course grade will be determined from the following
information:
| Quizzes, 12 @100 |
1200 |
| Homework |
300 |
| Final Examination |
500 |
| total |
2000 |
[There will be 15 quizzes; only your best 12 scores will count toward
the determination of your final course grade.
- Notes:You can see the proof
of Theorem 5.7 presented in class
Monday, February 21.
You might be interested in reading a brief
history of matrices and determinants.
I have prepared notes on the material about
matrix iteration and the related ideas talked about in class this
week (April 10 - 14).
If you like, you can the original article
by E. J. Putzer, describing his method for computing the matrix exponential
etA.
- Degree candidates:
Please look at the list of those class members
the Office of
the Registrar says are degree candidates this
semester. I have reported final course grades for these people to the
Office of the Registrar.
- Final Examination: The Office of the Registrar has published the
schedule of final examinations for this semester. The examination for
Math 4305A is to be
Wednesday, May 3, 11:30 a.m. - 2:20 p.m.
Room 256, Skiles Building
- Course-Instructor Opinion Survey: The folks at the Center for
the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning would just love to have you tell
them what you think of me. You can do this on-line, if you wish. You'll
find the survey here.
- Final course grades: The semester grades
are ready. Please let me know if you have any question about your
grade.
I hope everyone has a fine summer.
