Math 261: Linear Algebra

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@messiah.edu

Office: Frey 327

Office Hours: M 1-2, T 11-12, W 2-3, F 9-10

Textbook: Anton, Elementary Linear Algebra (ninth edition).

Class Meetings: MWF 11:30 - 12:30, Frey 345

Final Exam: 8:00 - 10:00 AM Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Syllabus (41KB PDF) LaTeX source
Mother Of All Theorems (40KB PDF) LaTeX source Last updated: 4/3
Lab exercise (71KB PDF) LaTeX source
Kakuro matrix (fixed) for this puzzle: [1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3; 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6; 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 18; 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 23; 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 9; 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6; 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 15; 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 12; 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4; 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 17; 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 22; 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 16; 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 16; 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3; 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 14]
Back of the book (PDF).
Diagonalization lab project (60KB PDF) LaTeX source

2/10: Homework #1 Due:: Section 1.1 1, 2, 3a, 4a,b, 5a,b, 7, 8
Section 1.2 3, 4a,b,c, 5a, 6a,b, 7a,b, 13a,b, 24, 27
Section 1.3 2, 3a,b,c,d,e,f,g, 5a,b,c, 12, 13, 22
2/17: Homework #2 Due:: Section 1.4 1a,b, 4a,b, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 28
Section 1.5 1, 2, 3, 6a, 7a, 8c, 10, 12, 13, 17
Section 1.6 9, 12, 29
Section 1.7 3, 6, 15, 20
2/24: Homework #3 Due:: Section 2.1 3a,b, 6, 7, 9, 33
Section 2.2 2, 3, 4, 5, 12
Section 2.3 1a, 2, 3, 6, 7, 16, 20
Section 3.1 6a,b,f, 8, 9, 10, 18
2/24: Exam I
3/3: Homework #4 Due:: Section 3.2 1a,b, 2a,b, 4, 7, 9
Section 3.3 1a,b, 2a,b, 4a,b, 8, 9, 16, 25, 27
3/10: Homework #5 Due:: Section 3.4 2, 3a, 9, 11a, 16, 20, 38
Section 3.5 2b, 4a, 5, 9a,b, 10a, 11a, 18, 25, 34
Section 4.2 2, 4, 6, 12
3/24: Homework #6 Due:: Section 4.2 16, 19a, 20c, 22a, 29, 34
Section 4.3 8, 10, 13, 15, 21
Section 5.1 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 17c, 27
3/31: Homework #7 Due:: Section 5.1 3, 13
Section 5.2 1a,b,c, 2a, 5a,b, 6a,b, 8a,b, 11a, 15
Section 5.3 1a,b, 3a,b, 6a, 7, 9, 18
3/31: Exam II
4/7: Homework #8 Due:: Section 5.4 1a,b, 2, 3a,b, 7a, b, 12, 14, 18a,b
4/21: Homework #9 Due:: Section 5.5 3a,b,c, 5a,b, 6a,b, 7, 11, 15
Section 5.6 2, 4, 6, 11, 17
Section 6.1 2, 8b, 9, 10a,b, 16, 18, 22
Section 6.2 4, 5a,c,e, 8, 14, 15, 35, 36a
Section 6.3 4a,b, 6a, 11
5/1: Diagonalization Lab Project Due
5/9: Final exam: 8-10 AM