BITL3 - Introduction to Linear Algebra - Spring 2023
Other offerings of this course: Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
Time: Mondays and Tuesdays, 14:00 - 15:40
Instructor: Jānis Lazovskis, janis.lazovskis@rbs.lv
Office: 404, Skolas iela 11
Drop-in hours hours: Thursdays 13:00 - 14:00 in 404 or online at zoom.us/my/janis.lazovskis. Consultations outside of drop-in hours can be booked at calendly.com/jlazovskis
Internal page: ORTUS e-studijas
Teaching methods
Several complementary approaches are used in this course, briefly explained below. More details are given in the syllabus.
- mastery-based grading: evaluating students by whether or not they have mastered certain topics
- standards-based grading: using a fixed list of standards, or goals, or skills for every assessment
- inquiry-based learning: progressing though the material by activities the students do themselves, in the form of directed prompts that reveal the key ideas
Course material
- Syllabus and calendar of the course
- Lecture notes (updated weekly)
- Textbook (Strang's "Introduction to Linear Algebra")
- Whiteboards for in-class collaborative work:
- Link for lectures in Part 1: Matrices and row reduction (lectures 1-7)
- Link for lectures in Part 2: Vector spaces (lectures 9-16)
- Link for lectures in Part 3: Eigentheory (lectures 18-24)
- Link for lectures in Part 4: Extensions (lectures 8, 17, 25)
Homework assignments
- Homework 1 (solutions): Due Thursday, January 12, 23:59
- Homework 2 (solutions): Due Thursday, January 19, 23:59
- Homework 3 (solutions): Due Thursday, January 26, 23:59
- Homework 4 (solutions): Due Thursday, February 2, 23:59
- Homework 5 (solutions): Due Thursday, February 9, 23:59
- Homework 6 (solutions): Due Thursday, February 16, 23:59
- Homework 7 (solutions): Due Thursday, March 2, 23:59
- Homework 8 (solutions): Due Thursday, March 9, 23:59
- Homework 9 (solutions): Due Thursday, March 16, 23:59
- Homework 10 (solutions): Due Thursday, March 23, 23:59
- Homework 11 (solutions): Due Thursday, March 30, 23:59
- Homework 12 (solutions): Due Thursday, April 6, 23:59
Python notebooks
List of standards
A full and updated list of standards is given below. In case of conflict between this list other lists, this list will be taken to be the correct one.