NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
Department of Mathematics
MA 520 Sec 1
Fall 2004


Textbook: Linear Algebra, by K. Hoffman and R. Kunze


Aug 18 Equivalent System of Linear Equations, Row-Reduced Echelon Matrices, Invertible Matrices
Aug 20 Vector Saces, Subspaces, bases and Dimension
Aug 23 Linear Transformations of Vector Saces, Representation of Transformation by Matrices
Aug 25 Linear Functionals, the Algebra of Linear Transformations, Isomorphism, Transpose of a Linear Transformation
Aug 27 The Dual of a Vector Space, the double dual
Aug 30 - Sept 1 Review of Exercises
Sept 3 Test # 1
Sept 8 The Algebra of Polynomials, Lagrange Interpolation.
Sept 10 Polynomial Ideals, The Prime Factorization of a Polynomial
Sept 13 Determinants Functions
Sept 15 Permutations and Uniqueness f Determinants
Sept 20 Multilinear Functions
Sept 22 Elementary Canonical Forms, Eigenvalues (or Characteristic Values), Eigenvectors
Sept 24 Invariant Subspaces
Sept 27 Simultaneous Triangulation, Simultaneous Diagonalization, Invariant Direct Sums.
Sept 29 Review of Exercises
Oct 1 Test # 2
Oct 4 The Primary Decomposition Theorem
Oct 6 The Rational and Jordan Forms
Oct 11 Cyclic Decompositions and the Rational Form
Oct 13 Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, Jordan Form
Oct 15 Computation of Invariant Factors
Oct 18-20 Review of Chapter 7
Oct 22 Test #3
Oct 25 Inner Product Spaces, cauchy-Schwarz Inequality
Oct 27 Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization Process, Bessel's Inequality
Oct 29 Linear Functionals and Adjoints
Nov 1 Unitary Operators
Nov 3 Normal Operators
Nov 5 Operators on Inner Product Spaces
Nov 8 Positive Forms
Nov 10 Spectral Theory
Nov 12 Polar Decomposition of an Operator
Nov 15-17 Review of Exercises
Nov 19 Test #4
Nov 22 Bilinear Forms
Nov 29 Symmetric Bilinear Forms
Dec1-3 Review