Academic Calendar - 2024

Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Western Main Campus

Mathematics 1700A/B

LINEAR ALGEBRA I FOR THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES


An enriched version of Mathematics 1600A/B. Complex numbers and the integers modulo a prime; vectors, lines, planes; solving linear systems; spanning sets and linear independence; matrix algebra; elementary matrices; subspaces, bases, dimension and rank; introduction to linear transformations; determinants; eigenvalues and eigenvectors; similarity and diagonalization; Markov chains and other applications.

Antirequisite(s): Mathematics 1600A/B, Mathematics 2211A/B, Numerical and Mathematical Methods 1411A/B, the former Applied Mathematics 1411A/B, the former Applied Mathematics 2811A/B, the former Mathematics 2120A/B.

Prerequisite(s): One of Mathematics 1120A/B (recommended), Calculus 1000A/B or Calculus 1500A/B with a minimum mark of 70% in the case of Calculus 1000A/B or Calculus 1500A/B.

Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.

Course Weight: 0.50
Breadth: CATEGORY C i  
Subject Code: MATH

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