Math 214: Linear Algebra

Course Information

Unit Assignments

• Unit 1 Assignment Due Wed 1/28/15:
• Unit 2 Assignment Due Wed 2/4/15:
• Unit 3 Assignment Due Wed 2/11/15:
• Unit 4 Assignment Not due: Mon 2/16/15:
• Unit 5 Assignment Due Wed 2/25/15:
• Unit 6 Assignment Due Wed 3/4/15:
• Unit 7 Assignment Due Wed 3/11/15:
• Unit 8 Assignment Not due: Mon 3/23/15:
• Unit 9 Assignment Due Wed 4/1/15:
• Unit 10 Assignment Due Wed 4/8/15:
• Unit 11 Assignment Due Wed 4/15/15:
• Unit 12 Assignment Not due: Mon 4/20/15:
• Unit 13 Assignment Due Wed 4/29/15:
• Unit 14 Assignment Not Due. Use to study for final.

  See also the Example Final Exam from Prof Strang's linear algebra course (from that course webpage.)
  Note: They have a 3 hour final, we have a 2 hour final. Remove problems 5 and 9 and I think this is a reasonable (though possibly too long) example of what our final could look like.
  Solutions to the example Final Exam.

Useful Websites

• MITs Open CourseWare linear algebra materials
• The textbook's website
• The Khan Academy's youtube videos on linear algebra
• Wikipedia's entry on linear algebra.

Image Compression Demo

• Images from singular value decomposition(SVD) storing only the largest k singluar values.
• Matlab code to create a compressed image from an existing image.

Virtual Handouts

• Matlab introduction from the textbook's webpage.
• Matlab Tutorial used in our in-class workshop in the math computer lab.

Matlab Scripts

• A script to draw the rowpicture of 3x3 systems Ax=b.
• A script to draw the columnpicture of 3x3 systems Ax=b.
• A helper script by Erik Johnson called arrow.mto draw nice 3D arrows in Matlab (used by others).