Linear Algebra II
Spring 2011

Room: East Hall 8
Time: Mon 11:15 -- 12:30, Wed 14:15 -- 15:30
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: Elitza Hristova
e-mail: e dot hristova at jacobs-university dot de
Office: Research I, 116b
Office hours: by appointment

Textbooks: A.I. Kostrikin and Yu.I. Manin, Linear Algebra and Geometry
E.B. Vinberg, A Course in Algebra

Course content: Review of normal form of linear operators; 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 for Wed, March 2, and Mon, April 11

Homeworks: There will be weekly homework assignments. The assignments are due Wednesday 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