MATH 410: Matrix Analysis (Summer II 2002)
Time:
Monday-Friday
Professor: Dr. Bruce Bayly
Office: Math building, room 207 Email: bjb@math.arizona.edu
Phone: 621-4766 (work), 795-8761 (home)
Office hours:
Monday-Friday
Textbook: LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS, by G. Strang.
Web page: I will be setting up a course web page, at which we will post course information, updates and changes to policy, syllabus, etc.. Also homework solution sets, exam solutions, and other supplementary material. It will be linked to my home page http://www.math.arizona.edu/~bjb .
Listserve: We will set up an e-mail listserve for the course, so that students, lecturer, and instructors can have a forum for discussing questions or other issues connected with the course. We will give you instructions for adding yourself to the listserve as soon as we have it up and running.
Preceptors: Some courses allow students to obtain additional units of credit by running activities that enhance the educational experience for the entire class. These could be extra office-hours, study groups, review sessions, preparing sample homework solutions, enhancing the web page, monitoring the listserve, or other things I have not thought of. If you are interested please let me know.
Grading policy: Unfortunately we do not have resources for collecting and grading homework. I will assign practice problems for you to work on yourself. Similar problems will appear on the exams.
There will be four in-class exams, scheduled for the second half of the class on each Friday of the course (12 July, 19 July, 26 July, and 2 August). Each in-class exam will be worth 100 points. Missed exams will count for zero points, unless you have a valid excuse, in which case the score for that exam will be replaced by the average of your other in-class exams. The Final exam is scheduled for the last class of the course; it will last for the entire class and will be worth 200 points.
All points will be added together and the result divided by the total possible. Final percentages above 90, 80, 70, or 60 guarantee letter grades of at least A, B, C, or D respectively. In practice I anticipate giving difficult exams that most of the class will not finish in the available time. Please DO NOT PANIC! I will adjust letter-grade cutoffs if necessary so that your grade is a valid measure of your achievement in the course.