M346, Applied Linear Algebra

Unique number: 57850

Meeting time and place: MWF 10-11,  RLM 6.114.

Web page: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/sadun/F09/346

Professor: Lorenzo Sadun, RLM 9.114, x1-7121

email: sadun@math.utexas.edu

Office hours: M2-3, Tu9-11. I generally keep an open door and welcome visitors at all times.

Textbook: Applied Linear Algebra, 2nd edition, by Lorenzo Sadun. Do not get the first edition! The first edition had a huge number of printing errors, the second edition has a lot of new content, and the second edition is priced at about half the first edition.

Prerequisites: M311 or M340L or M341 or permission of instructor

Syllabus: Chapters 1 through 8, with occasional skipped sections. You can find an online day-by-day schedule here.

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

Exams: There will be three in-class midterm exams, on September 18, October 23 and November 20, plus a final exam on December 15, 9-12. 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 20%. The final exam counts 40%. The homework, taken together, counts 20%. At the end of the term I will drop your lowest 20%. 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