SUNY at Stony Brook MAT 211: Introduction to Linear Algebra
Spring 2019

Syllabus and Weekly Plan (tentative)

Week of Topics
Jan 28 Introduction, Vectors (sections 1.1-1.2)
Feb 4 Lines and Planes (section 1.3)
Feb 11 Linear Equations (sections 2.1-2.2)
Feb 18 Linear Independence (sections 2.3-2.4)
Feb 25 Matrices (sections 3.1-3.2)
March 4 The inverse of a matrix (section 3.3)
Midterm 1 on March 7 (Thursday)
March 11 Subspaces, Dimension (section 3.5) March 14 Lecture
March 18 Spring Break
March 25 Linear Transformations (section 3.6)
April 1 Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors, Determinants (sections 4.1-4.2)
April 8 Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors (section 4.3) April 11 Lecture
April 15 Similarity and Diagonalization (section 4.4)
Midterm 2 on April 18 (Thursday)
April 22 Orthogonality (sections 5.1-5.2)
April 29 Gram-Schmidt Process (sections 5.3-5.4)
May 6 Final Review
May 15 (Wednesday)
8:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Final Exam