http://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/F16/LinearAlgebra
Section 004
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:40am - 9:55am
405 Milbank Hall (Barnard)
Section 002
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:10am - 11:25am
405 Milbank Hall (Barnard)
Dave Bayer
Office Hours
bayer@math.columbia.edu
426 Mathematics
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Including our final, there will be a total of three exams. Course grades will be determined by these exams, and graded homework:
Makeup exams will only be given under exceptional circumstances, and require a note from a doctor or a dean.
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I receive emails at both bayer@math.columbia.edu and dbayer@barnard.edu
For official correspondence concerning this course, you must include your uni. The easiest way to do this is to send emails from your email address based on your uni. When I search for emails from students, I search by uni, and only by uni. If your email does not include your uni, it is as if you never sent it.
I am aware that Columbia provides some students with “vanity” email addresses of the form first.last@columbia.edu. These are a poor idea. If you use such an address, you will sometimes forget to include your uni.
These study guides describe the chapters of Bretscher to study for our exams, topics to learn, a list of homework exercises to be graded, and many practice exam problems from past years.
I have posted first and second exams and solutions to our Linear Algebra Course Materials page.
Graded exams and grade reports have been returned as PDF files to your CourseWorks Dropbox.
These are videos of the 8:40am-9:55am lectures.
This page hosts PDF files from this semester and previous semesters.
Our graduate teaching assistants give problem sessions, and hold office hours.
Our undergraduate teaching assistants grade homework, and hold office hours.
These office hours are held in the Columbia Math Help Room, 406 Mathematics. Anyone working in this help room can answer linear algebra questions.
Here is the Columbia Math Help Room schedule.
Linear Algebra with Applications, 5/E, by Otto Bretscher. Pearson, 2012. ISBN-10: 0321796977, ISBN-13: 9780321796974. $208 suggested retail price. Columbia University Bookstore, Amazon ($175; $76 international edition), or Addall ($49 and up).
One may instead use the previous edition; homework will be selected from problems common to both the fourth and fifth editions.
Linear Algebra with Applications, 4/E, by Otto Bretscher. Pearson, 2009. ISBN-10: 0136009263, ISBN-13: 9780136009269. $170 suggested retail price. Amazon ($30 and up), or Addall ($19 and up).
For some schools, October 11, 2016 is the last day to drop a class, and November 17, 2016 is the last day to P/D/F or withdraw from a class. Check with your school’s academic calendar to confirm the dates that apply to you.
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This calendar gives our schedule of classes and exams:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 5 Sep | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 12 Sep | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 19 Sep | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 26 Sep | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 3 Oct | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 10 Oct | 11 Exam 1 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 17 Oct | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 24 Oct | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 31 Oct | 1 Nov | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 Nov | 8 | 9 | 10 Exam 2 | 11 |
| 14 Nov | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 21 Nov | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 28 Nov | 29 | 30 | 1 Dec | 2 |
| 5 Dec | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 12 Dec | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 19 Dec | 20 Final | 21 | 22 Final | 23 |