M340L, Matrices and Matrix Computations

Unique number: 57850

Meeting time and place: TuTh 9:30-11,  Wel 2.246.

Web page: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/sadun/S10/340L

Professor: Lorenzo Sadun, RLM 9.114, x1-7121

email: sadun@math.utexas.edu

Office hours: Tu 11-12, W10-11. I generally keep an open door and welcome visitors at all times.

TA: Joseph Hunt, RLM 11.126, 232-6425

email: jhunt@math.utexas.edu

Office hours: MTuW 12:15-1:45

Textbook: Linear Algebra and its Applications, 3rd edition, by David Lay. The text of the 3rd edition is almost identical to the text of the 2nd edition. However, the problems have been completely scrambled, which makes doing homework out of the old edition very difficult.

Syllabus: The entire text, 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 Thursday.

Exams: There will be two in-class midterm exams, on February 18 and April 8, plus a final exam on May 13, 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 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, but I promise that the cutoffs will be no tougher than 90/80/70/60. (In most semesters, they are significantly easier than that.)

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