640:250 Linear Algebra, Spring 2006

Catalog Description

01:640:250. INTRODUCTORY LINEAR ALGEBRA (3) Prerequisite: CALC2. Systems of linear equations, Gaussian elimination, matrices and determinants, vectors in two- and three-dimensional Euclidean space, vector spaces, introduction to eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Possible additional topics: systems of linear inequalities and systems of differential equations.

General Information

More about the course and its history can be found from the main course page.

The textbook for this course is

Spence, Insel, & Friedberg: Elementary Linear Algebra: A Matrix Approach ,   Prentice-Hall   (ISBN # 0-13-716722-9).

The Rutgers bookstore sells the text (required) and the student solution manual (recommended but not required).

The authors of the textbook also have a companion   web site containing supplementary material.

A suggested syllabus has been prepared as a pdf file and as a postscript file. There is also a list of suggested homework problems as a pdf file and a postscript file. Individual instructors may modify the syllabus and homework problems for their sections.

Individual Sections

There are ten sections of 250 this semester in the regular format. There are also two sections of 640:250C Introduction to Linear Algebra with MATLAB .

Some of the entries in the following table are links to special information for individual sections or home pages of instructors.
 
01 MW5 FH-A2 Beals
02 TF2 MU-212 Gonzalez
No section 3
04 MW5 ARC-204 Shtelen
05 MW6 SEC-216 Weingart
No section 06
07 TF3 SEC-218 Gindikin
08 TTh5 SEC-207 Taft
09 TTh6 SEC-203 Taft
No section 10
11 MTh2 BE-003 Han
No section 12
13 MW5 RAB-207 Dutkay
No section numbers 14, 15, 16, 17
18 MW8 SC-119 Weingart


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Last updated: January 18, 2006