Welcome to Math 240!
(additions to this web site no longer count towards good deed points)
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Week of...
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Notes and Links
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Sep 8
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About This Class, What is this class about? (PDF, HTML), Monday, Wednesday
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Sep 15
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HW1, Monday, Wednesday, TheComplexField.pdf,HW1_solutions.pdf
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Sep 22
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HW2, Class Photo, Monday, Wednesday, HW2_solutions.pdf
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Sep 29
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HW3, Wednesday, Tutorial, HW3_solutions.pdf
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Oct 6
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HW4, Monday, Wednesday, Tutorial, HW4_solutions.pdf
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Oct 13
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No Monday class (Thanksgiving), Wednesday, Tutorial
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Oct 20
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HW5, Term Test at tutorials on Tuesday, Wednesday
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Oct 27
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HW6, Monday, Why LinAlg?, Wednesday, Tutorial
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Nov 3
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Monday is the last day to drop this class, HW7, Monday, Wednesday, Tutorial
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Nov 10
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HW8, Monday, Tutorial
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Nov 17
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Monday-Tuesday is UofT November break
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Nov 24
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HW9
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Dec 1
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Wednesday is a "makeup Monday"! End-of-Course Schedule, Tutorial
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Dec 8
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The Final Exam
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Add your name / see who's in!
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Linear Algebra is the Small Scale Theory of Everything
- 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.
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- 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.
See also The Mathematica notebook QuiltPlot.
