Welcome! You have found the homepage of the Spring 2026 manifestation of Math 218.
Quizzes and problem sets are distributed through gradescope.
| Timeframe | Topic | Resources |
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| Week 0 | Welcome! |
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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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| Week 2 | Digraphs |
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| Vector Geometry |
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| Matrix Multiplication ⟵ deadline extended to Tu 27-Jan! |
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| Week 3 | Row Echelon Forms |
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| Linear Systems |
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| Week 4 | Gauss-Jordan Elimination |
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| Nonsingular Matrices |
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| EA=R Factorizations |
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| Fri 06-Feb | Exam I ⟵ covers weeks 1-4 |
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| Week 5 | PA=LU Factorizations |
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| Eigenvalues |
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| Week 6 | Null Spaces |
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| Column Spaces |
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| The Four Fundamental Subspaces |
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| Week 7 | Linear Independence |
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| Bases |
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| Dimension |
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| Week 8 | Orthogonality |
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| Projections |
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| Least Squares |
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| Fri 06-Mar | 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 | Spring Break! | |
| Week 11 | Determinants I |
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| Determinants II |
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| Complex Numbers |
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| Week 12 | Polynomial Algebra |
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| The Characteristic Polynomial |
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| Diagonalization |
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| Week 13 | Matrix Exponentials |
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| The Spectral Theorem |
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| Definiteness |
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| Fri 10-Apr | Exam III ⟵ covers weeks 9-13 |
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| Week 14 | Singular Value Decomposition |
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