LA I: Epiphany Term Lecture Summaries

The table below lists the main topics to be covered in each lecture, and will be updated as the term proceeds.
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MATH1091 Monday 11am CG93 Tuesday 11am CG93 Thursday 10am W103
MATH1071 Monday 12pm PH8 Thursday 12pm PH8 Friday 10am PH8
  11  (26)   Collections exam 1 Eigenvalues, eigenvectors and diagonalisation
  Changing the basis for the matrix of a linear transformation
  Eigenvectors and eigenvalues
  The characteristic equation
  Algebraic and geometric multiplicities of
    eigenvalues
  Eigenspaces
  12  (27)   The Cayley-Hamilton theorem
  Equivalence relations and similarity of matrices
  Diagonalisable matrices
  A key result: an NxN matrix is diagonalisable ⇔ it has N
    linearly independent eigenvectors
  Examples; application to systems of ODEs








Patrick Dorey  
Last modified: 17 January 2025  
Images: mathematicians from MacTutor;  
quilts from the University of Kentucky Math Lab.