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Week Lecture Date        Topic In Riley et al at...
11 1
2
3


Collections exam
Series basics
Tricks for summing series

4.1,4.2
4.2
12 4
5
6


Convergence of infinite series; comparison and quotient tests.
Ratio, Cauchy's, and integral tests.
Convergence for alternating series, absolute and conditional convergence. Power series.
4.3
4.3
4.3,4.5
13 7
8
9


Convergence of power series, interval of convergence. Operations on power series
Taylor polynomials, examples.
Taylor series, Lagrange form of the remainder, approximation error, Taylor's theorem
4.5
4.6
4.6
14 10
11
12


Taylor series and limits
Matrices: motivation, simple matrix operations, matrix multiplication
Matrix transpose, functions of matrices
4.6
8.3,8.4
8.6,8.5
15 13
14
15


Systems of linear equations: examples
Systems of linear equations: Gaussian elimination, row echelon form
Homogeneous systems. Vector spaces, linear combinations of vectors
8.18
8.18
8.18,8.1
16 16
17
18


Vector spaces: linear independence, basis
Linear maps, linear operators, and their matrices
Kernel, image, rank of a linear map
8.1
8.2
8.2, 8.11
17 19
20
21


Rank of matrix and elementary row operations. Trace and determinant
Calculation of determinant, properties, determinants and Gauss elimination
Determinant and rank. Inverse matrix using elementary row operations
8.18, 8.8, 8.9
8.9
8.11,8.10
18 22
23
24


Inverse matrix using cofactors
Symmetric, orthogonal, Hermitian, unitary matrices
Change of basis
8.10
8.7,8.12
8.15
19 25
26
27


Eigenvalues and eigenvectors: definition, characteristic equation and polynomial
Determining eigenvectors, examples. Properties of eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Eigenvalues of Hermitian matrices. Diagonalisation: algebraic and geometric multiplicities
8.13,8.14
8.14
8.13,8.16
20 28
29
30


Diagonalisation of matrices: algorithm, finding a transformation matrix
Diagonalisation of matrices: examples. Polynomial and exponent of a matrix
Diagonalisation of Hermitian matrices. Cayley-Hamilton Theorem
8.16
8.16
8.16
21 31
32
33


Quadratic forms
Diagonalisation of quadratic forms
Revision
8.17
8.17
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