• Adam Kanigowski Awarded European Mathematical Society Prize

    He is the first member of UMD’s Department of Mathematics to receive this prestigious award for young mathematicians. The European Mathematical Society (EMS) awarded a 2024 EMS Prize to Adam Kanigowski, a Polish-born associate professor in the University of Maryland’s Department of Mathematics. Established in 1992, the prize is presented every four years to… Read More

  • Jonathan Poterjoy and Kayo Ide join new $6.6 million NOAA consortium

    Congratulations to AOSC's Jonathan Poterjoy and Kayo Ide (also of math and IPST) on joining a new NOAA consortium to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts.  Called CADRE, the $6.6 million initiative will focus on data assimilation, which uses observations to improve model predictions of natural systems, like Earth's atmosphere, over time.… Read More

  • Alfio Quarteroni receives the Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics

    Congratulations to Alfio Quarteroni for winning the 2024 Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics The message from the European Academy of Sciences reads: We are excited to announce that Professor Alfio Quarteroni has been awarded the esteemed 2024 Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics for his outstanding contributions to the field, particularly in… Read More

  • Archana Receives the Donna B. Hamilton Award

    Archana Khurana has been selected to receive the Donna B. Hamilton Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in a General Education Course.  Awards are based solely on student nominations and are solicited from across campus.  From the many nominations received, the selection committee was very impressed by the student experience… Read More

  • Yanir Receives a Do Good Campus Fund Grant

    Yanir’s proposal on “Incorporating outreach into the curriculum via experiential learning” is one of the only 27 projects out of 140 submissions that were funded by the UMD Do Good Campus Fund. Read More
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Description

Basic concepts of linear algebra: vector spaces, applications to line and plane geometry, linear equations and matrices, similar matrices, linear transformations, eigenvalues, determinants and quadratic forms. All sections of the course will use the software system MATLAB. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: MATH 240 or MATH 341 or MATH 461.

Prerequisites

a C- or better in (MATH 131 or MATH141)

Topics

Systems of Linear Equations

Gaussian elimination
Matrix operations
Finding the inverse
Solution spaces

Determinants

Definition
Evaluation
Minors
Cramer's Rule

Vectors in 2- and 3- space

Geometric and algebraic definitions
Dot product
Projections

Vector Spaces

Euclidean space
Subspaces
Linear independence
Basis and dimension
Row space, rank
Length and angle
Gram-Schmidt
Least squares

Linear Transformations

Definition
Kernel and range
Representation as matrices

Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

Definition
Diagonalization
Orthogonal diagonalization
Symmetric matrices

Applications

Differential equations
Quadratic forms
Numerical methods

  • 1
  • 2