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Math
1b Practical |
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Linear
Algebra |
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Winter
2011 - 12 |
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Course Description | Policies | Textbooks | Lecture Notes | Handouts | Homework | Sections |
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Instructor:
Elena
Mantovan, 266 Sloan, 626.395.4342, mantovan@caltech.edu Lead TA: Michel van Garrel Course
Secretary: Kathy Carreon, 253 Sloan,
626.395.4335, kcarreon@caltech.edu
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Section 1 - Ross Elliot 356 Sloan, 626.395.4351 Office Hours: Monday 4pm, 356 Sloan |
9:00 am, Thursday 11 DWN |
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Section 2 - Laura Peskin
260 Sloan, 626.395.4340 Office Hours: Tuesday 2pm, 260 Sloan |
10:00 AM, Thursday 119 DWN |
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Section 3 - Liling Gu
356 Sloan, 626.395 4081 Office Hours: Tuesday 4pm, 356 Sloan |
10:00 AM, Thursday 11 DWN |
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Section 4 - Michel van Garrel, Lead TA
304 Kellogg, 626.395.4027 Office Hours: Sunday 6pm, 304 Kellogg |
1:00 PM, Thursday 103 DWN |
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Section 6 - Lawrence Chung 256 Sloan, 626.395.4338 Office Hours: Monday 4pm, 256 Sloan |
2:00 PM, Thursdays |
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Section 7 - Jing Jing Huang
385 Sloan, 626.395.1732 Office Hours: Wednesday 2pm, 385 Sloan |
9:00 AM, Thursdays |
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comprehensive treatment of linear algebra and matrix theory. The
subject will be approached in a relatively concrete manner. Some
applications to graph theory and probability will also be
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GRADING: Roughly
1/3 homework, 1/3 midterm, and 1/3 final. Typically, the pass-fail line
has been approximately 60%. Those with high scores on the homework and
midterm will be excused from the final. In the past those with about
90% of the possible points on homework and midterm have been excused. HOMEWORK POLICY: Students may work together on homework problems but must write up their own homework in their own words and hopefully understand the solution. Homework will be due on Monday at 10:00 a.m. in your section homework box outside room 253 Sloan. At most one late homework set will be accepted, and only at your TA's discretion, if arrangements have been made in advance with your TA, and if the work is less than a week late. Other than in exceptional circumstances, homework will not be accepted more than a week after the deadline. Graded homework sets will be handed back in your section (and will be available during TA Office Hours). Solutions will be posted on the web. Many of the problems which will be assigned this year in Math 1b, also were assigned in previous years in Math 1b. Do not consult the solution sets from previous years in working this years problems. Recitations: Go to the recitations! Some weeks, a portion of the recitation may be dedicated to introducing some computational (or even theoretical) aspect which the Instructor will not have time to present in class. In general, get to know your TA and bug him/her to death (figuratively speaking) with your questions, and try to fill in all the holes in your understanding of the subject.
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Last
update: March 12, 2012| © California Institute of Technology |
Questions? kaubry @ caltech.edu
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