06-240/Linear Algebra - Why We Care - Revision history

John.koziar: /* Extra Class Time */

2006-10-19T01:16:37Z

Extra Class Time

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	On Thursday October we will have a 2-hour class (1-3PM) to make up for the class time lost on the Term Test, and just one hour of tutorials (3-4PM) as no HW assignment is due on that week anyway.		On Thursday, October 26th, we will have a 2-hour class (1-3PM) to make up for the class time lost on the Term Test, and just one hour of tutorials (3-4PM) as no HW assignment is due on that week anyway.

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 * '''To study the large, start with the small.'''
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 * '''In small scales, every function is a linear function.'''
 * '''The world doesn't come with coordinates.'''

Drorbn: /* The Term Test */

2006-10-17T11:21:57Z

The Term Test

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	Our one and only Term Test is coming up. It will take place in class on Tuesday October 24 2006, starting promptly at 1:10PM and ending at 3:00PM sharp. It will consist of 4-5 questions (each may have several parts) on everything that we will have covered in class by October 18: the axiomatic definition of fields and vector spaces, <math>{\mathbb Z}/p</math> and other examples, 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 don't deserve their own headers. ~~Note my comments from [[06-240/Homework Assignment 5]]:~~		Our one and only Term Test is coming up. It will take place in class on Tuesday October 24 2006, starting promptly at 1:10PM and ending at 3:00PM sharp. It will consist of 4-5 questions (each may have several parts) on everything that we will have covered in class by October 18: the axiomatic definition of fields and vector spaces, <math>{\mathbb Z}/p</math> and other examples, 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 don't deserve their own headers.

			Note my comments from [[06-240/Homework Assignment 5]]:

	;Will there be "proof questions"?		;Will there be "proof questions"?

Drorbn at 01:17, 17 October 2006

2006-10-17T01:17:59Z

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{{06-240/Navigation}}

{{In Preparation}}

* '''To study the large, start with the small.'''

* '''In small scales, every space is a vector space.'''
** Indeed if you walk a mile east, a mile north, a mile west and a mile south, you're back were you started, but if you fly a 1,000 miles east, a 1,000 miles north, a 1,000 miles west and a 1,000 miles south, you're not back were you started (where will you be?).

* '''In small scales, every function is a linear function.'''

* '''The world doesn't come with coordinates.'''
** Hence whenever we can we work without a basis, and when we do study bases, we study all of them.

==Some Technical Remarks==

===The Term Test===

Our one and only Term Test is coming up. It will take place in class on Tuesday October 24 2006, starting promptly at 1:10PM and ending at 3:00PM sharp. It will consist of 4-5 questions (each may have several parts) on everything that we will have covered in class by October 18: the axiomatic definition of fields and vector spaces, <math>{\mathbb Z}/p</math> and other examples, 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 don't deserve their own headers. Note my comments from [[06-240/Homework Assignment 5]]:

;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.

Note also 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.

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

===Extra Class Time===

On Thursday October we will have a 2-hour class (1-3PM) to make up for the class time lost on the Term Test, and just one hour of tutorials (3-4PM) as no HW assignment is due on that week anyway.