Math 115A: General Course Outline
Catalog Description
    115A. Linear Algebra. (5) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Requisite: course 33A. Techniques of proof, abstract vector spaces, linear transformations, and matrices; determinants; inner product spaces; eigenvector theory. P/NP or letter grading.
Textbook
    S. Friedberg, et al, Linear Algebra, Custom UCLA 4th Ed., Prentice Hall.
Schedule of Lectures

Lecture

Section
Topics
1
1.2
Vector Spaces over a Field
2
1.3
Subspaces
3
1.4, 1.5
Linear Combinations and Systems of Linear Equations; Linear Dependence and Linear Independence
4
1.5, 1.6
Linear Dependence and Linear Independence; Bases and Dimensions
5
1.6
Bases and Dimensions
6
1.6
Bases and Dimensions
7
2.1
Linear Transformations, Null Spaces, and Ranges
8
2.1
Linear Transformations, Null Spaces, and Ranges
9
2.1, 2.2
Linear Transformations, Null Spaces, and Ranges; The Matrix Representation of a Linear Transformation
10
.
Midterm #1
11
2.2
The Matrix Representation of a Linear Transformation
12
2.3
Composition of Linear Transformations and Matrix Multiplication
13
2.4
Invertibility and Isomorphisms
14
2.4, 2.5
Invertibility and Isomorphisms; The Change of Coordinate Matrix
15
2.5
The Change of Coordinate Matrix
16
4.4
Summary - Important Facts about Determinants
17
5.1
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
18
5.1
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
19
5.2
Diagonalizability
20
5.2
Diagonalizability
21
5.2
Diagonalizability
22
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Midterm #2
23
6.1
Inner Products and Norms
24
6.1, 6.2
Inner Products and Norms; The Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization Process and Orthogonal Complements
25
6.2
The Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization Process and Orthogonal Complements
26
6.3
The Adjoint of a Linear Operator
27
6.4
Normal and Self-Adjoint Operators
28
6.4
Normal and Self-Adjoint Operators
29
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Catch-up, Review
Outline Updated: June 2005
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