Department of Mathematics

Applied Linear Algebra
MTH 415-001

Schedule and Topics Covered

Date Topic/Section Assignments and Reading
8/25Welcome, and NeuronsRead the Syllabus
8/27Motivation: FNNs DUE 8/29: Read Chapter 1 of Notes_v1
HW1 -- DUE 9/5: Do the 10 Exercises 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.7, 2.1.8, 2.1.9, 2.2.1, 2.2.2 from Notes_v1
8/29The Complex Numbers DUE 9/5: Read Sections 2.1 and 2.2 of Notes_v1
9/1 Holiday - no class
9/3 Inner Products and Cauchy-Schwarz DUE 9/8: Read Section 2.3 of Notes_v1
9/5 Norms, Spans, and Subspaces
HW 1 DUE IN CLASS
HW2 -- DUE 9/12: Do the 14 Exercises 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.8, 2.2.9, 2.2.10, 2.2.11, 2.2.12, 2.2.13, 2.2.14, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, and 2.3.3 from Notes_v2
9/8 Bases, Dimension, and RankDUE 9/12: Read Section 2.4 of Notes_v2
9/10 Orthonormal Bases and the Pythagorean Theorem
9/12 The Gram-Schmidt algorithm
HW 2 DUE IN CLASS
HW3 -- DUE 9/19: Do the 10 Exercises 2.3.8, 2.3.9, 2.3.10, 2.3.11, 2.3.12, 2.3.13, 2.4.1, 2.4.3, 2.4.5, 2.4.6 from Notes_v3
9/15 The QR Decomposition DUE 9/19: Read Section 2.5 of Notes_v3
9/17 Elementary Matrices and Gaussian Elimination
9/19 Perpendicular Subspaces
HW 3 DUE IN CLASS
HW4 -- DUE 9/26: Do the 10 Exercises 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 2.5.6, 2.5.7, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3 from Notes_v4
9/22 Orthogonal Projections DUE 9/26: Read Section 2.6 of Notes_v4
9/24 Least Squares Solutions
9/26 The Four Fundamental Subspaces
HW 4 DUE IN CLASS
HW5 -- DUE 10/3: Do the 10 Exercises 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.11, 2.6.12, 2.7.1 from Notes_v5
9/29 Spectral Theorem for Hermitian Matrices DUE 10/1: Read Sections 2.7 and 2.8 of Notes_v5
10/1 PSD Matrices DUE 10/3: Read Sections 2.9 and 2.10 of Notes_v5
10/3 Trace and Determinant
HW 5 DUE IN CLASS
HW6 -- DUE 10/10: Do the 11 Exercises 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.8.1, 2.8.3, 2.8.6, 2.9.1, 2.9.2, 2.9.3, 2.9.4, and 2.9.8 from Notes_v5. NOTE: For 2.9.8 assume A is also full rank.
10/6 Toward the SVD DUE 10/10: Read pages 71 -- 76 of Notes_v5
10/8
10/10 HW 6 DUE IN CLASS HW7 -- DUE 10/15: Do the 8 Exercises 2.10.1, 2.10.3, 2.10.5, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.1.5 from Notes_v5
10/13
10/15Midterm Review
HW 7 DUE IN CLASS
10/17 MIDTERM EXAM
10/20 Fall Break - no class
10/22
10/24
10/27
10/29
10/31
11/3
11/5
11/7
11/10
11/12
11/14
11/17
11/19
11/21
11/24
11/26
11/28 Holiday - no class
12/1
12/3
12/5Final Review
12/10 FINAL EXAM 5:45 pm -- 7:45 pm in WH A318