Math 3407 Advanced Linear Algebra Spring 2019 schedule - click to see board pictures from each lecture.
Note that the current syllabus has major changes from this version.
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| | Monday | Friday |
Week 1 | 14 January | 6.1 vector spaces | 6.1 properties of vector spaces | 6.2 linear dependence |
Week 2 | 21 January | 6.3 subspaces | 6.3 spans, 6.4 bases | 6.4 Steintz replacement theorem |
Week 3 | 28 January | 6.4 bases, 6.5 sums of subspaces | 6.5 dimensions of sums of subspaces | 6.5 direct sums of subspaces |
| 4 February | | | |
Week 4 | 11 February | 6.5 complements, direct sums of more than 2 subspaces, 7.1 linear transformations | 7.1 combining linear transformations, subspaces related to linear transformations | 7.1 rank nullity theorem |
Week 5 | 18 February | 7.2 coordinates for vectors, matrix representations of linear transformations | 7.2 how to use matrix representations | 7.3 change of bases |
Week 6 | 25 February | 8.1 diagonal and triangular form | 8.1 Cayley-Hamilton theorem, proof for diagonalisable matrices | 8.1 better proof of Cayley-Hamilton, minimal polynomial |
Week 7 | 4 March | midterm | 8.1 minimal polynomials of diagonalisable matrices, 8.2 what is Jordan form | 8.2 generalised eigenvectors |
Week 8 | 11 March | 8.3 Jordan form algorithm step 1, information from the Jordan form | 8.3 Jordan form algorithm step 2 | 8.3 Jordan form algorithm step 4 |
Week 9 | 18 March | 9.1 linear forms | 9.3 dual of a linear transformation | 9.3 matrix of the dual transformation |
Week 10 | 25 March | 9.2 change of dual bases | 9.2 the double dual, 9.4 bilinear forms | 9.4 matrix of a bilinear form, quadratic forms |
Week 11 | 1 April | 9.4 diagonalising a quadratic form, by row and column operations | | |
Week 12 | 8 April | 9.4 diagonalising a quadratic form | 9.5 definiteness of real quadratic forms | 10.1 inner products |
Week 13 | 15 April | 10.1 orthogonal projections, Gram-Schmidt | | |
| 22 April | | 10.1 Cauchy-Schwarz and triangle inequalities, orthogonal complement | 10.2 Riesz representation theorem |
| optional class, 17 May: | | 10.2 adjoint | 10.5 spectral theorem for normal operators |