General Information:
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- Lectures: TR 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm in Classroom Building 130
- Instructor: Paul Arnaud Songhafouo Tsopmene, Office: CW 307.26, Phone: 306-585-4422, Email: pso748@uregina.ca
- Office Hours: TR 9:30 am – 11:30 am or by appointment
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Course Description: A course intended to introduce students to elementary linear
algebra, particularly at a computational and applied level. Topics include matrices and
systems of equations, inversion, determinants, vectors, inner products, eigenvalues and
eigenvectors.
Textbook: Linear Algebra with Applications, 7th Edition, by W. K. Nicholson.
Content: Topics include
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- Systems of Linear Equations (1.1 through 1.3): Solutions and Elementary Operations, Gaussian Elimination, Homogeneous Equations.
- Matrix Algebra (2.1 through 2.6): Matrix Addition, Scalar Multiplication, and Transposition, Equations, Matrices, and Transformations, Matrix Multiplication, Matrix Inverses, Elementary Matrices, Linear Transformations.
- Determinants and Diagonalization (3.1 through 3.3): The Cofactor Expansion, Determinants and Matrix Inverses, Diagonalization and Eigenvalues.
- Vector Geometry (4.1 through 4.3): Vectors and Lines, Projections and Planes, More on the Cross Product.
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Prerequisite: Precalculus 30, or Mathematics B30 and C30, or Mathematics 102.
Course Outline/Syllabus: More information about this course can be found in the course outline.