MATH V2010:
 Linear Algebra
 Fall 2007

This page is http://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/F07/LinearAlgebra

Section 002 (Bayer)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:10am-10:25pm
304 Barnard Hall

Dave Bayer (x42643, 426 Mathematics, http://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer)
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For correspondence concerning this course, please use the email address bayer@math.columbia.edu with a subject that includes the text [MATH V2010: Linear Algebra]

Office Hours

Exams

Including our final, there will be a total of three exams that determine the course grade.

These dates do not coincide with any religious holiday which causes suspension of New York City's alternate side parking regulations; see NYC Parking Calendar. Please discuss other conflicts with me well in advance of the exam in question.

Master University Examination Schedule
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Text

Students may use either edition of our textbook. The sections of the two editions correspond very closely, but not exactly. For our schedule, I use section numbers for the second edition. I assign exercises for both editions; exercises are not collected.

First edition:

Elementary Linear Algebra: A Matrix Approach, by Lawrence E. Spence, Arnold J. Insel, and Stephen H. Friedberg. Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN-10: 0137167229, ISBN-13: 9780137167227. AddALL ($42 and up).

Exercises for first edition

Second edition:

Elementary Linear Algebra, 2/E, by Lawrence E. Spence, Arnold J. Insel, and Stephen H. Friedberg. Prentice Hall, 2008. ISBN-10: 0131871412, ISBN-13: 9780131871410. University bookstore ($130) or AddALL ($70 and up).

Exercises for second edition

Teaching Assistant

Course materials

Past exams can be downloaded by following the above link.

A Note on Exam Grading

Our three exams will consist of a total of twenty exam questions over the course of the semester, each graded on a scale of 0 to 5. These are relative scores; I sort the entire class into six piles according to the answers for a particular problem, with the stronger answers receiving higher scores.

With rare exceptions, it is not possible to get a higher score than 3 for any wrong answer, no matter how inconsequential the arithmetic error leading to the wrong answer. It is possible to check the answer for every test question, and I am implicitly testing your ability to check the answer. With a deep understanding of linear algebra, one can look at any exam problem and see several different ways to tell that the answer is unquestionably correct. I am testing for this understanding.

Calendar

This calendar gives our schedule of classes and exams, and a rough indication of which sections will be covered on which days.

The sections given are for the second edition of our textbook. The sections correspond very closely, but not exactly, to the first edition.