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| Time: |
Tu 3:30-4:30, Th 2:30-3:30, Fr 4:30-5:30 |
| Place: | Room 225, Jeffery Hall |
| Instructor: |
Dr. Ernst Kani Room 211, Jeffery Hall Telephone: 533-2435 Email: kani@mast.queensu.ca |
| Office hours:
after each class (see
below) or by appointment: |
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Tu 4:30 - 5:00 Th 3:30 - 4:20 Fr 5:30 - 6:00 |
| Marking scheme: |
Assignments October Mid-term test Christmas exam February Mid-term test Final exam |
20.0% 7.5% 30.0% 7.5% 35.0% _______ 100.0% |
| Assignments: | Due Fridays at 4:30 |
| MAPLE Lab: | Fri, 22 September, 2017, 4:30-5:30, Room 155 JEF |
| Mid-term tests: |
Thurs, 26 October, 2017,
2:30-3:30 in Rooms 225 and 234 JEF Thurs, 1 March, 2018, 2:30-3:30 in Rooms 225 and 234 JEF |
| Christmas exam: | 19 December 2017, 14:00-16:00, JEF 1st floor |
| Final exam: | April, 2018
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| Textbook: | E. Kani, N. J. Pullman, N. M. Rice, Algebraic Methods, Queen's University, 2017. |
| PC software: | MAPLE - installed on PC's in Jefflab (JEF 155) |
| Integers: |
- Greatest common divisor (gcd), Euclidean algorithm (ch. 1) - Linear Diophantine equations (ch. 1) - Modular arithmetic (ch. 2) - Public key cryptography (ch. 2) |
| Polynomials: |
- Review of complex numbers (ch. 3) - Gcd, Euclidean algorithm (ch. 3) |
| Approximation: |
- Data fitting: Lagrange interpolation formula, Least square approximation (ch. 4) |
| Matrices: |
- Matrix polynomials, discrete linear systems (ch. 5) - Applications of Jordan canonical form (ch. 6,7) - Powers of matrices, stochastic matrices (ch. 7) |
| Groups: |
- Permutation groups, cycles, Burnside's theorem, application to colouring problems (ch. 8) |
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| Page Last Updated: January, 2018 |