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# Season 9

### 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.

• #### Content delivery:

All episodes (recorded lectures) and slides are organized here and here, and a youtube playlist is here.

• #### 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.