Instructor: Alex Iosevich
Office: Hylan 909
email: iosevich@math.rochester.edu
Office Hours: 2-3 p.m. MW and by appointment
Textbook: Linear Algebra by Hofmann and Kunze
Grading: Journal (%10), Homework (%20), Two exams (%20
each), and Final (%30).
Structure of the class:
This is going to be a highly interactive class. Notes will be
prepared and distributed ahead of time. Some of the time in
class will be dedicated to lecturing and the rest will be spent
in small interactive groups designed to grasp the salient
features of the proofs and examples in real time.
Structure of the exams and the final:
Each exam is going to consist of five problems. The first two
problems will be medium level theorems directly from book or the
homework, possibly stated in a slightly different notation.
Getting a perfect score on such problem is purely a matter of
diligence. The third problem will be a slight variant of a more
difficult result from the book or homework. The fourth and fifth
problem will be designed to test how well you can prove results
that are based on combining ideas and techniques from theorems
proved in class and assigned on the homework.
Expectations:
i) The students will be expected to come to each class prepared.
What this means is that on any given day, I expect the students
to
know and understand the proofs and examples
that were covered in class up to that point. In addition, the
students will be expected to read ahead and anticipate the
material that is going to be covered.
ii) The students are expected to keep a journal (worth %10 of
the grade in the class) where they briefly describe the material
they looked at on that day, the difficulties they experienced,
and how they resolved them.
Homework:
Homework
#1: due Sunday, September 11, 11:59 p.m. (to be turned in
on gradescope)
Homework
#2: due Sunday, September 18, 11:59 p.m. (to be turned in
on gradescope)
Homework
#3: due Sunday, September 25, 11:59 p.m. (to be turned in
on gradescope)
Homework
#4: due Sunday, October 9, 11:59 p.m. (to be turned in on
gradescope)
Homework
#5: due Sunday, October 16, 11:59 p.m. (to be turned in
on gradescope)
Homework
#6: due Sunday, October 23, 11:59 p.m. (to be turned in on
gradescope)
Homework
#7: due Sunday, October 30, 11:59 p.m. (to be turned in on
gradescope)
Homework
#8: due Sunday, November 6, 11:59 p.m. (to be turned in on
gradescope)
Homework
#9: due Sunday, November 13, 11:59 p.m. (to be turned in
on gradescope)
Howework
#10: due Sunday, November 20, 11:59 p.m. (to be turned in
on gradescope)
Homework
#11: due Sunday, December 4, 11:59 p.m. (to be turned in
on gradescope)
Homework
#12: due Sunday, December 11, 11:59 p.m. (to be turned in
on gradescope)
Lecture notes:
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Review
Session Video, September 27