Linear Algebra (MA203) 2006-07
Welcome to the homepage of MA203 (Algebra). This page will be updated
regularly through the semester.
Contents
Lecturer
News
Syllabus
Course Notes
Homework
Dr Rachel Quinlan
Office : Room 105, Áras de Brún (Ground Floor)
Phone : 091 493796 (3796 from inside NUI Galway)
email : Rachel.Quinlan@NUIGalway.ie
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The Autumn 2006 exam paper in MA203 is available
here.
- The second homework assignment is now available for collection
outside the Mathematics Department Office (C204) on the first floor of
Áras de Brún.
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.
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
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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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.
NUI, Galway Department of
Mathematics