MA2007B: LINEAR ALGEBRA I, Fall 2019

Instructor: Prof. Suh-Yuh Yang (楊肅煜)

• Office: M315, Hong-Jing Hall 

• Phone: 03-4227151 ext. 65130

• E-mail address: syyang@math.ncu.edu.tw

• Homepage: http://www.math.ncu.edu.tw/~syyang/

Office Hours: Tuesday 10:00~12:00 am or by appointment. 

Teaching Assistant: 曾柏逸/研究室: M208, Tel: 65142, E-mail: tsengpeter1125@gmail.com

Prerequisites: high school mathematics.

Textbook: Gilbert Strang, Introduction to Linear Algebra, International Edition, Wellesley-Cambridge Press, 2019.

                  (台灣代理商：滄海書局，台中市西屯區台灣大道3段540號11F, Tel: 04-27088787) 

                 http://math.mit.edu/~gs/linearalgebra

                 http://ocw.mit.edu/ (Math 18.06)

Course Objective:

• To introduce the beauty and variety of linear algebra, and its extreme usefulness.

• To see how the applications of linear algebra reinforce the key ideas.

• This course will move gradually and steadily from numbers to vectors to subspaces.

General Information: This course will cover the following topics

• Introduction to vectors

• Solving linear equations

• Vector spaces and subspaces

• Orthogonality (正交)

• Determinants (行列式)