MATH 316 Introductory Linear Algebra Summer 2004

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

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

hkaneko@odu.edu

Time & Place: M.T.W.Th 11:00-12:15pm BAL 244

Office Hours: TBA

Website: http://www.lions.odu.edu/~hkaneko/teaching/summer04/316-su04.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:

2 Tests: 35%

Weekly Quizzes: 35%

Final exam: 30%

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

illness requiring a physician's care which can be documented. The

lowest quiz grade will be dropped.

Other important dates:

Monday, May 31 Memorial Day Holiday.

Friday, June 4 Last day to withdraw from Session 1.

Tuesday, June 22- Last day of classes

Thursday , June 24–Final Exam 3:00-6:00pm

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.