MAT 2141 Honours Linear Algebra

3 units
Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Vector spaces, direct sums and complement of subspaces, linear maps, representation of linear maps by matrices, dual spaces, transpose mappings, multilinear mappings, determinants, inner products, orthogonal projections, the Gram-Schmidt algorithm. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of symmetric matrices. The emphasis of this course is on proving all results.

Components:

Discussion Group
Lecture

Requirements:

Prerequisites: MAT1341, (MAT1348 or MAT1362 or MAT2362).

Previously Offered Terms:

Fall

French Equivalent:

Organized

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Clear Expectations

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Learned a Lot

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Recommend

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Workload

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Fair Assessments

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