Welcome! You have found the homepage of the Fall 2025 manifestation of Math 218.
Quizzes and problem sets are distributed through gradescope.
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| Week 0 | Welcome! ⟵ quiz and "pset" due Fri 29-Aug @11:30pm! |
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| Week 1 | Matrices and Vectors |
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| Adjectives ⟵ complete at home! (w/quiz but no pset) |
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| Matrix-Vector Products |
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| Digraphs |
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| Week 2 | Vector Geometry |
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| Matrix Multiplication |
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| Week 3 | Row Echelon Forms |
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| Linear Systems |
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| Gauss-Jordan Elimination |
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| Week 4 | Nonsingular Matrices |
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| EA=R Factorizations |
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| PA=LU Factorizations |
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| Fri 26-Sep | Exam I ⟵ covers weeks 1-4 |
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| Week 5 | Eigenvalues |
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| Null Spaces |
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| Week 6 | Column Spaces |
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| The Four Fundamental Subspaces |
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| Linear Independence |
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| Week 7 | Bases |
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| Dimension |
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| Orthogonality |
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| Week 8 | Projections |
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| Least Squares |
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| Fri 24-Oct | Exam II ⟵ covers weeks 5-8 |
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| Week 9 | A=QR Factorizations |
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| The Gram-Schmidt Algorithm |
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| Week 10 | Determinants I |
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| Determinants II |
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| Complex Numbers |
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| Week 11 | Polynomial Algebra |
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| The Characteristic Polynomial |
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| Diagonalization |
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| Week 12 | Matrix Exponentials |
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| The Spectral Theorem |
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| Definiteness |
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| Fri 21-Nov | Exam III ⟵ covers weeks 9-12 |
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| Week 13 | Singular Value Decomposition |
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| Week 14 | Partial Derivatives ⟵ (w/quiz but no pset) |
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