LINEAR ALGEBRA – MATH 253 – Spring, 2002

Time: M T Th F 11:30 - 12:20 am Location: Collins 210

Professor: Steve Prothero Office: Collins 314 (approximately 100 p)

Phones: Office: 370 - 6484 Home: (503) 393 - 5143

e-mail: prothero@willamette.edu (work) prothero4@attbi.com (home) webpage: http://www.willamette.edu/~prothero

Office Hours: M T Th F 10:10 – 11:20 and W 8 - noon

Afternoons by appointment

{In class: M T Th F 8 - 8:50, 9:10 - 10, and 11:30 - 12:20}

Text: LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS by Daniel C. Lay

Text Coverage: Chapter Sections Chapter Sections

1 1.1 – 1.8 2 2.1 – 2.6

3 3.1 – 3.3 4 4.1 – 4.7

5 5.1 – 5.5 6 6.1 – 6.6

7 7.1 & 7.4

There will also be some supplemental material on complex inner product spaces

Grading: Final: 1 @ 150 points 150

Quizzes: 4 @ 50 points 200 *

Mid-terms: 4 @ 75 points 300

Total Possible: 650

Grade will be determined by total points,

but will NOT be based on fixed, pre-determined percentages

(However, 90+% guarantees some kind of A, 80+% some kind of B, etc)

*Group work:

The four quizzes will be done with a partner with a single solution handed in. The grade will be shared. If partners disagree on a particular problem, separate solutions can be handed in. However the points for the problem will be split according to the correctness of the solutions.

(for example: 2 and 8 out of 10)

Partners for the quizzes will be chosen randomly with no repetitions allowed. If there are an odd number of students in the class, one group will have three members, which leads to a possible 3-way split on problems when there is a disagreement as above.