Math 304-2 - Linear Algebra - Spring 2010


Instructor: Nate Reff
Office: LN 2243
Email: reff at math dot binghamton dot edu
Course Meetings: MWF 8:30-9:30 in SW 327, R 8:30-9:55 in FA 209
Office Hours: M 9:40-10:40, W 3:30-5:30, F 9:40-10:40 in LN 2243
Textbook: Math 304 (Spring 2010), 11th Ed., by M. Brin and G. Marchesi
Syllabus: pdf
Department Linear Algebra Website: http://www.math.binghamton.edu/dennis/304.s10/allindex.html

Class Material
  • Lecture Comments / Handouts / Examples
  • Homework
  • Exam Solutions

    • Additional Resources
  • Linear Algebra (Spring 2005) @ MIT Taught by Gilbert Strang! (Has video lectures)
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  • Linear Algebra (Fall 2005) @ MIT
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  • Linear Algebra Toolkit
  • Matrix calculator
  • Kurt Bryan, Tanya Leise, The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector: The Linear Algebra behind Google, SIAM Rev. 48 (2006), no.3, pp.569-581.
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  • Sheldon Axler, Down with Determinants!, American Mathematical Monthly 102 (1995), 139-154.
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  • Guy Noir and some Linear Algebra (Humor)
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  • Declaration of Linear Independence (Humor)
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    Other Educational Resources
  • In 2002 MIT launched the OpenCourseWare (OCW) website: ocw.mit.edu. The basic concept was to make educational material freely available to the public. Since its inception many (over 200 or so) other universities have adopted the principles and created there own OCW projects. See the OpenCourseWare Consortium website. Here are a few of the many OCW sites:
    • Oxford University Mathematics OpenCouseWare
    Berkeley Webcast
    UC Irvine OpenCourseWare
    Notre Dame OpenCourseWare
    Open Yale courses
    UMass Boston OpenCourseWare
    Open.Michigan
    Tufts OpenCourseWare
    Utah State OpenCourseWare
  • Another website which offers free online video lectures is Academic Earth. This site has just recently been launched (March 2009) and many of these lectures come from the OCW websites available.
  • iTunes U, which is part of the iTunes Store is also another large collection of free educational media.
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