Date Topic Read Links
2007.01.09 Vector Spaces §1.2-3 email assignment
2007.01.10 Subspaces §1.4
2007.01.12 Direct Sums §1.5 problem set #1
2007.01.16 Span & Linear Independence §2.1 solutions #1
2007.01.17 Bases & Dimension §2.2-3
2007.01.19 Linear Maps §3.1 problem set #2
2007.01.23 Kernel & Image §3.2 solutions #2
2007.01.24 Invertibility §3.4
2007.01.26 Matrices §3.3 problem set #3
2007.01.30 Polynomials §4.1-3 solutions #3
2007.01.31 Invariant Subspaces §5.1
2007.02.02 Upper Triangular Matrices §5.3 problem set #4
2007.02.06 Diagonal Matrices §5.4 solutions #4
2007.02.07 More Invariant Subspaces §5.5
2007.02.09 Inner Products §6.1 problem set #5
2007.02.13 Norms §6.2 solutions #5
2007.02.14 Orthonormal Bases §6.3
2007.02.14 Test
2007.02.16 Orthogonal Projections §6.4 problem set #6
Reading week
2007.02.27 Dual Spaces §6.5 solutions #6
2007.02.28 Adjoints §6.5
2007.03.02 Self-Adjoint and Normal Operators §7.1 problem set #7
2007.03.06 Spectral Theorem §7.2 solutions #7
2007.03.07 More Normal Operators §7.3
2007.03.09 Positive Operators §7.4 problem set #8
2007.03.13 Isometries §7.5 solutions #8
2007.03.14 Polar Decomposition §7.6
2007.03.16 Singular-Value Decomposition §7.6 problem set #9
2007.03.20 Generalized Eigenvalues §8.1 solutions #9
2007.03.21 Characteristic Polynomials §8.2
2007.03.23 Decomposition of an Operator §8.3 problem set #10
2007.03.27 Square Roots §8.4 solutions #10
2007.03.28 Minimal Polynomials §8.5
2007.03.30 Jordan Form §8.6 problem set #11
2007.04.03 More Jordan Form §8.6 solutions #11
2007.04.04 Review jordan problem set #12
2007.04.06 Good Friday solutions #12
2007.04.13 Exam (19:00; GDS Third Floor)