Linear Algebra II
Spring 2010

Room: East Hall 3
Time: Mon, Th 11:15 -- 12:30
Instructor: Pavel Tumarkin
e-mail: p dot tumarkin at jacobs-university dot de
Office: Research I, 130; Phone: 200-3517
Office hours: Wed 16:00 -- 17:00 and by appointment

Teaching Assistant: Radoslav Zlatev
e-mail: r dot zlatev at jacobs-university dot de
Office: Research I, 127
Office hours: by appointment

Textbooks: A.I. Kostrikin and Yu.I. Manin, Linear Algebra and Geometry
T.S. Blyth and E.F. Robertson, Further Linear Algebra

Course content: Spaces with inner product and orthogonalization; Euclidean space, Minkowski space, and symplectic spaces; orthogonal, unitary, and self-adjoint operators; elements of projective geometry; multilinear algebra.

Midterms: There will be two midterm exams scheduled (approx.) for Mon, March 1, and Mon, April 12

Homeworks: There will be weekly homework assignments. The assignments are due Thursday lecture of the next week.

Grading policy:

Grades will be computed according to the following rule (subject to minor changes):

Cutoff score: 95% 90% 85% 80% 75% 70% 65% 60% 55% 50% 45%
Grade: 1.0 1.33 1.66 2.0 2.33 2.66 3.0 3.33 3.66 4.0 4.33