Some places are moving to universal early algebra in the hopes that more students take calculus. Minnesota has required it for years — with less-than-promising results.

Linear transformations. Linear operators, change of basis, inner product and the diagonalization problem. Quadratic forms. Convex sets and geometric programming, input/output models for an economy, ...

One more patch (or hardcoded hack, rather) later the ‘Hello World’ example in Fortran was up and running, clearing the way to build the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) and LAPACK ...

This course develops ideas first presented in MA100. It consists of the linear algebra part of MA212, covering the following topics: Vector spaces and dimension. Linear transformations, kernel and ...