University of Helsinki Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Social Sciences

 

In English

Linear Algebra and Matrices, spring 2007

Lecturer

Martin Fluch

Lectures

Wednesday 12-14 and Thursday 10-12 in room C123. Two hours of exercise sessions per week.

Part I: weeks 3-9
Part II: weeks 11-18

Easter holiday: 5.-11.4.

Exercises

Exercise class is on Friday 14-16 in room B321.

The weekly exercises will be handed out in the lecture on Wednesday and will be discussed in the exercise session a week later. The exercises and sample solutions will be posted on a seperate page.

Contents

This course will cover basic studies of linear structures (like the solutions of systems of linear equations).

Lecture Notes

The lecture notes and additional course material can be found in room C326 in the "Linear Algebra 1" folder for the current term. The lecture notes are usually always a bit ahead of the lecture itself, the progress of the lecture can be found on this seperate page.

The lecture notes will be available online, too: la1.pdf
(last updated 14.5.)

Credits

5+5 op, 3+2 ov

Grade

The grade will based on: 2/3 exam and 1/3 exercises.

Feedback

Please give feedback as much as possible to help to develop the course. Either in person, by e-mail (see here) or by the following continuous course survey fromula. Any feedback is greatly appreciated! :-)

Exams

There will be two exams, one at the end of the first period (for part I), the other one at the end of the second period (for part II).

Exam Date Time Place Content
1. 7.3. 10-12 C123 Lecture notes: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 up to Section 6, Dimension of a Vector Space,
Exercises: exercise sheets 1 to 5.
2. 10.5. 10-12 C124 Lecture notes: Chapter 3, Exercises 6 to 11.

Exercise Sessions

Group Day Time Place Instructor
1. Fr 14-16 B321 Martin Fluch