MAT 532 Fall 2012

The course is over! Final grades have been submitted to MySlice. Thanks to everyone for a great semester, and enjoy your break.

Basic Info

Instructor
Prof. Graham Leuschke
email: gjleusch@math.syr.edu
AIM: leuschkeg
Google: leuschke@gmail
Time & Place
TR 9:30–10:50 in Carn 300
Textbook
Carl D. Meyer, Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra
Office Hours
MW 1:30–4:30; by appointment; and any time my door is open (317G Carnegie)
Important documents
syllabus

Announcements

Here is last year’s final exam. As always, it should be used with caution: we did not cover exactly the same material this year. Also, this year’s final will have a large section consisting of definitions and formulas, like Exam II.

Exam II was in class on Thursday 29 November. It covered up through orthogonal projections and reflections, that is, Sections 5.1–5.6, plus the PageRank material. Here is last fall’s Exam II for your reference. Note that we did not cover exactly the same material this year. Also I announced in class that about half the points on this exam will be “theoretical” questions: definitions and formulas, rather than computations.

Exam I was in class on Tuesday 9 October. It covered up through least-squares, that is, all of the material we covered from Chapters 1–4. Here is last fall’s Exam I for your reference. Note that we did not cover exactly the same material before the first exam this semester as last year.

It has been said that ‘the human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra.’ If this be true, it is but natural and proper that an age like our own, characterized by the multiplication of labor-saving machinery, should be distinguished by the unexampled development of this most refined and most beautiful of machines.

Josiah Willard Gibbs, 1887

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