Matrices and Matrix Calculations, M340L-CS Spring 2012, Unique #: 55740

  • Professor: Lorenzo Sadun, sadun@math.utexas.edu
  • Teaching Assistant: Mark Norfleet mnorfleet@math.utexas.edu
  • Lectures: TuTh 9:30-11:00, Wel 2.246
  • Website: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~sadun/S12/340L
  • Office: RLM 9.114
  • Sadun Office Hours: M1-2, W10-11 RLM 9.114
  • Norfleet Office Hours: M 3:30-5, Th 12-1:30, RLM 10.106
  • Phone: 471-7121
  • Text: Introduction to Linear Algebra, 4th ed., by Gilbert Strang. (Not "Linear Algebra and Its Applications", which costs 3 times as much!)
  • Prerequisites: M408C or M408K or M408N with a grade of C- or better. Note: you cannot get credit for both M340L and M341.


    • Final exam and preparation for the final. The final exam was on Thursday afternoon, 2-5 PM, in CMA A2.320. Solutions are posted below. We will try to get things graded, and course grades assigned, by Monday or Tuesday.

    *Handouts and Other Course Information

  • Gilbert Strang's Lectures at MIT based on his text.
  • First Day Handout
  • Course Schedule
  • Homework
  • Doc-cam slides from all the lectures
  • Practice first midterm from 2010, both with and without solutions. Note that this was not a CS section, so the material doesn't precisely match our course. That course had a lot more emphasis on reduced row-echelon form and a lot less on LU factorization.
  • Practice first midterm from 2003, both with and without solutions. This is almost 10 years old, and my teaching style has probably changed significantly since then. Use at your own risk.
  • Actual first midterm, both with and without solutions.
  • Practice second midterm from 2010, both with and without solutions. Note that this exam was given in April, and so contains more material than will be covered in the Spring 2012 2nd midterm.
  • Practice second midterm from 2003, both with and without solutions.
  • Actual second midterm, both with and without solutions.
  • Practice third midterm from 2003, both with and without solutions. However, the material on this exam isn't really relevant to our current 3rd midterm. Note also that there is not a practice third midterm from 2010. I only gave 2 midterms that year, and diagonalization was on the second midterm.
  • Actual third midterm, both with and without solutions.
  • Practice final exam from 2003, both with and without solutions.
  • Practice final exam from 2010, both with and without solutions.
  • Actual final exam, both with and without solutions.