Who, What, Where, etc.:
Basics:
Deliverator: Prof. Peter Dodds
Lecture room: Perkins 107
Meeting times: Tuesday and Thursday, 10:05 to 11:20 am
Office: Farrell Hall, second floor, Trinity Campus
Office hours: 9:00 to 11:55 am Wednesdays.Follow @matrixologyvox for course updates and other goodness.
Textbook:
Introduction to Linear Algebra (3rd or 4th or 5th edition) by Gilbert Strang (published by Wellesley-Cambridge Press).
Strang (a total champion) provides a good portion of the 5th edition online here.The complete syllabus lives here.
Awesomeness level:
Very, very high. Matrixology is spectacular. The course has a natural overall arc that revolves around the Big Picture below.
Course objective:
Our goal is to deeply understand the matrix equation
$\mathbf{A}\vec{x}=\vec{b},$
the Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra,
why having a small Left Null Space is cool,
and
everything about the following Picture of Bigness.
