MA339: Applied Linear Algebra

Course Website on Moodle

Professor:

Scott R. Fulton (367 Science Center, 268-2379, fulton@clarkson.edu, office hours)

Fall 2011:

In Fall 2011 this course meets 2:00-2:50pm in SC160 (starting Monday 29 August). The primary website for this course will be on Moodle. Check there for announcements, assignments, etc.

The textbook for the fall will be Linear Algebra and its Applications (fourth edition) by David C. Lay (Pearson/Addison Wesley, 2012, ISBN-10: 0321385179, ISBN-13: 9780321385178). This is the same textbook used in recent semesters at Clarkson but the latest edition. You must have this edition--while the material in previous editions is similar, the exercises are substantially different.

Also recommended is the Study Guide, which is a 349-page book of additional information that many students find helpful: more detailed problem solutions, comments on the reading, hints about how to simplify some of the calculations, answers (almost!) to the true/false questions (which will play an important role in the class--in homework, quizzes, and exams), reviews of all of the key concepts, etc. I haven't seen the new edition yet, but the one for the previous edition (which was on a CD) was well done and useful. This will be bundled with the textbook at the University Bookstore at minimal extra cost ($3.50 more than what they would charge for the textbook alone).

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Mon Aug 29 11:49:14 EDT 2011
Scott R. Fulton
fulton@clarkson.edu