MATH 410: Matrix Analysis (Summer II 2004)

 

Time: Monday-Friday 9:00-10:45 / 11:00 – 12:45                Place: Bio West 219

Professor:  Dr. Bruce Bayly

Office: Math building, room 610        Email: bjb@math.arizona.edu

Phone: 621-4766 (work), 795-8761 (home), 331-2408 (cell)

Office hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 - 9:00 and 13:00 – 14:00, or by appointment.

 

Textbook: APPLIED LINEAR ALGEBRA (internet draft) by Peter Olver and Chehrzad Shakiban.

 

Web page:  I will be setting up a course web page, at which we will post course information, updates and changes to policy, syllabus, etc..  Also homework solution sets, exam solutions, and other supplementary material.  It will be linked to my home page http://www.math.arizona.edu/~bjb .

 

Listserve:  We will set up an e-mail listserve for the course, so that students, lecturer, and instructors can have a forum for discussing questions or other issues connected with the course.  We will give you instructions for adding yourself to the listserve as soon as we have it up and running.

 

Grading policy:  I will assign homework on a regular basis (every day or two), for a total of about 10 assignments worth 10 points each.  I hope to arrange for solutions to be posted so that you can grade them yourselves.  You should do the problems as best you can, and you may make use of any resources (including each other) to maximize your understanding.  Similar problems will appear on the exams. 

 

There will be three 50-minute in-class exams, scheduled for the second half of the class on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Mondays of the course (19 July, 26 July, and 2 August).  Each in-class exam will be worth 100 points.  Missed exams will count for zero points, unless you have a valid excuse, in which case the score for that exam will be replaced by the average of your other in-class exams.  There will be no in-class exam on Monday 9 August.  Instead, half of the Final exam on the last class day (Wednesday 11 August) will be on Week 4’s material, and the other half will be comprehensive of the entire course.  The Final will be 1 hour and 50 minutes long and will be worth 200 points.

 

All points will be added together and the result divided by the total possible.  Final percentages above 90, 80, 70, or 60 guarantee letter grades of at least A, B, C, or D respectively.  In practice I anticipate giving difficult exams that most of the class will not finish in the available time.  Please DO NOT PANIC!  I will adjust letter-grade cutoffs if necessary so that your grade is a valid measure of your achievement in the course.

 

Extra/Honors Credit: I will suggest optional extra-credit problems that develop tangents to the regular course material.  You can get Honors credit doing all the extra credit and writing a short paper on some applications of matrices in your major.