DATA/MATH 412 -- Linear Algebra for Data Science

Fall 2025

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When: MWF 1200--1250pm
Where: Psych 206
Instructor: Kevin K Lin

Office: Math 606
Phone: 626-6628
E-mail: klin@math.arizona.edu

Important web pages (bookmark these)

This page: https://www.math.arizona.edu/~klin/412
Brightspace: https://d2l.arizona.edu/d2l/home/1653261
~~Gradescope: https://www.gradescope.com/courses/1098220~~
But please see my announcement on Brightspace about Gradescope workflow

Office hours: TBA

About this course

Resources, notes, and other course info

Course syllabus
Required text: Linear Algebra, Data Science, and Machine Learning by Jeff Calder and Peter J. Olver
Applied Linear Algebra by Peter J. Olver and Cheri Shakiban is a useful reference for earlier material
Lecture notes by Prof Keaton Hamm, who designed and taught the original version of this course, may be useful later for some of the material

Course calendar

Note: This calendar is subject to change; all changes will be announced in class and by email. This is a copy of the Brightspace calendar, and new events take time to propagate. The Brightspace calendar is more up-to-date.

This page was last updated on September 03, 2025.