MATH 316 Introductory Linear Algebra Spring 2003

Instructor: Hideaki Kaneko, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics

BAL 524, 683-3882 (math main office), 683-4969 (my office)

hkaneko@odu.edu

Time & Place: T.Th 9:30-10:45am, ED 102

Office Hours: T.Th. 11:00am-12:15pm, 3:00pm-4:15pm (or by appointments)

Website: http://www.lions.odu.edu/~hkaneko/teaching/316-s03.htm

The website will contain general announcements, homework sets,

grades, possibly partial solution sets. Students are encouraged to check

it with some frequency.

Textbook: Linear Algebra with Applications, Second Edition,

by Otto Bretscher, Prentice Hall, 1997.

We will cover Chapters 1-4, 6, 7, and 5.

Course Overview: Math 316 is a three credit introductory course

to the fundamentals of linear algebra. Topics will include

solutions of linear systems of equations over the reals, matrices,

vector spaces and subspaces, dimension and bases, eigenvectors and

eigenvalues and, time permitting, orthogonality. The lectures will

be based on axioms and theorems, however, an effort will be made to

motivate the theory using examples using realistic applications.

Prerequisite: Math 211.

Grading: There will be 3 in-class tests, approximately 10 quizzes and a

comprehensive final exam. They are weighted as follows:

Tests: 35% (Feb 6, March 2, April 5)

Quizzes: 35% (Every Thursday beginning Jan. 23 except

Three test dates above)

Final exam: 30% (Tuesday, May 6, 8:30am-11:30am)

Makeup Policy: No makeup exams, unless exceptional circumstances such as illness

requiring a physician's care which can be documented. Two lowest

quiz grades will be dropped.

Other important dates:

Monday, January 20- MLK day- no class.

March 8-March 16 Spring Break

Tuesday, March 18- Last day to withdraw

Tuesday, April 29- Last day of classes

Tuesday, May 6 –Final Exam 8:30-11:30am

Other guidelines: You are encouraged to study and discuss the class material in groups.

Asking questions to your colleagues and having to answer your

colleagues' questions are very useful and effective steps in the learning

process. However, anything you turn in must be authored solely by

you, make sure you understand what you're writing on paper.

Abide by Old Dominion University's honor code.

Homework: You are responsible for the material covered in the following problems

from the book. Quiz problems will be closely based on the homework

problems.