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Announcement

Our one and only Term Test is coming up. It will take place in class on Thursday October 21 2009, starting promptly at 1:10PM and ending at 3:00PM sharp, in our normal classroom, MP103. It will consist of 4-5 questions (each may have several parts) on everything that will be covered in class by October 16: the axiomatic definition of fields and some basic properties of fields, ${\mathbb {C} }$ and other examples, a tiny bit on the field with $p$ elements $F_{p}$, the axiomatic definition of vector spaces, basic properties and examples of vector spaces, spans, linear combinations and linear equations, linear dependence and independence, bases, the replacement lemma and its consequences, a bit about linear transformations and a few smaller topics that we touched but that do not deserve their own headers.

Note that there may be some computations, but nothing that will require a calculator. Note also that I may include some questions from the homework assignments verbatim or nearly verbatim.

Will there be "proof questions"?

Sure. What else have we done so far?

Do we need to know the proofs from class?

Sure. There's a reason why these proofs are in class to start with; if they weren't valuable, we wouldn't have covered them.

No electronic devices capable of displaying text or sounding speech will be allowed.

In style and spirit this exam will not be very different of the one I gave 3 years ago. See 06-240/Term Test.