Linear Algebra (MA203) 2006-07

Gauss


Welcome to the homepage of MA203 (Algebra). This page will be updated regularly through the semester.

Contents

Lecturer
News
Syllabus
Course Notes
Homework


Lecturer for MA203 Linear Algebra

Dr Rachel Quinlan
Office : Room 105, Áras de Brún (Ground Floor)
Phone : 091 493796 (3796 from inside NUI Galway)
email : Rachel.Quinlan@NUIGalway.ie

News



Outline Syllabus for MA203 Linear Algebra

Chapter 1 Systems of Linear Equations
Chapter 2 Gauss-Jordan Elimination and the Inverse
Chapter 3 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
Chapter 4 Markov Processes

The course notes should be sufficient as a "text" for this course. For supplementary reading I recommend Anton's "Elementary Linear Algebra", which is published by Wiley, or "Linear Algebra and its Applications" by David C. Lay, published by Addison-Wesley. Both these textbooks include comprehensive discussion of most topics on the MA203 (Linear Algebra) syllabus and plenty of practice problems.



Course Notes

Outline course notes are available below in .pdf format. This collection of notes will be updated as we proceed through the course. The purpose of these notes, if you choose to use them, is to relieve you of the need to write long passages of material during class. They are not intended to relieve you of the need to attend class! In some cases examples (in the online notes) are different from the corresponding examples in the (in-class) lecture notes, although completely equivalent in terms of the methods and ideas they involve. In some of these cases you may find it helpful to have more than one worked example on hand.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Section 1.1

Section 2.1

Section 3.1

Section 4.1

Section 1.2

Section 2.2

Section 3.2

Section 1.3

Section 2.3

Section 3.3

Section 1.4

Section 2.4

Section 3.4

Section 1.5

Section 2.5

Homework

Homework assignments, followed later by outline solutions, will be posted here as we proceed through the course.

Note The picture at the top of this page is from a German stamp honouring Carl Friedrich Gauss, after whom Gaussian elimination is named. For more stamps featuring mathematicians, see this site.


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