Linear Algebra I

What It's All About

These slides are almost entirely the ones written by by Prof. Lyle Cochran of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA. I have added slides of my own, covering sections not written up by Prof. Cochran.

The notes follow very closely the text I use: Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 3^rd edition, Updated, by David C. Lay, copyright 2006, Addison-Wesley.

Please see the suggested text(s), regarding the material on which this course is based — highly recommended, not that my approbation is needed.

Planned changes/enhancements

1. I hope to add more figures and examples, particularly ones pertaining to the various engineering disciplines of interest to my students.
2. I would like to add interactive features to the slides, perhaps other animations aids as well.
3. The use of Matlab can be very instructive for the teaching, and I hope to include it right into the slides.

Format note

The PDF slides are for letter size paper. For A4 paper, or for printing a number of slides per page (perhaps to hand out to students), I suggest the use of pdftops and psutils, specifically psnup. Please see the corresponding man pages. For example, to adjust to A4 paper, and print 2 per page, framed:

        pdftops -paper A4 some_file.pdf - | psnup -2 -d > some_file.ps
        

Feedback

I am very interested in your comments, criticisms, jokes (did anyone read that? :-) ), ideas, bug reports, etc. Please forward such input to me. In addition, if interested, drop me a line and I will notify you of changes and updates.

Happy computing and teaching!

Aaron