Semester. Fall 2011-2012

Instructor. Aynur Baki Gürsoy

Schedule. Tuesday 14:40-16:30 (FEF-B04), Wednesday 09:40-11:30 (FEF-B04), Thursday 14:40-15:30 (FEF-B06)

Office Hours. Tuesday 12:40-14:30

Catalogue Description: Systems of Linear Equations, Row Echelon Form, Matrix Algebra, Elementary Matrices, Determinants, Vector Spaces, Linear Independence, Basis and Dimension, Row Space and Column Space, Null Spaces and Ranges, Linear Transformations, Similarity, Orthogonality,  Inner Product Spaces, Orthonormal Sets, The Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization Process, Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, Diagonalization, Hermitian Matrices, Quadratic Forms.

Textbook: Steven J. Leon, Linear Algebra with Applications, Pearson , 2006.

Reference Book: B. Kolman and D. R. Hill,Pearson, Elementary Linear Algebra with Applications, 9th ed.,  2008.

Evaluation Criteria. Two midterm examinations (30% each), one final examination (40%)