Course descriptions and course information

• Course Description from the College course directory
• Course Description from the Maths UG Handbook
• Lecturer: Oliver Jenkinson, Room B55, Mathematics.
• Timetable of Lectures: Thursday 2-3pm (GO Jones Lecture Theatre), Friday 2-3pm (GO Jones Lecture Theatre), Friday 4-5pm (GO Jones Lecture Theatre)
• Exercise Class: Thursday 11-12 (GO Jones 609), Friday 12-1 (Geog 226)
• MTH5112/MAS212, Linear Algebra I (essential prerequisite)
• MTH4104/MAS117, Introduction to Algebra (essential prerequisite)
• Course information sheet
• Summer 2009 Exam
• Solutions to Summer 2009 exam
• Summer 2010 Exam
• Solutions to Summer 2010 exam

Notes and information

Lecture notes: The module will roughly follow the notes from 2009-10, though in lectures you will see extra material not in these notes: examples, explanations, tips for exercise sheets, etc.

2010-11 notes for individual chapters will be posted here as they become available. Otherwise the 2009-10 version is posted here.

• Chapter 1: Vector Spaces
• Chapter 2: Matrices
• Chapter 3: Linear maps between vector spaces
• Chapter 4: Determinants
• Chapter 5: Linear maps on a vector space
• Chapter 6: Quadratic forms
• Chapter 7: Inner product spaces
• Chapter 8: Symmetric Matrices

Occasional additional notes will be posted here:

• Fields & Vector Spaces
• The Exchange lemma
• Permutations

Exercise sheets will be posted here as they become available:

• Exercise Sheet 1 (hand-in deadline: 3pm Monday 11th October) Solutions
• Exercise Sheet 2 (hand-in deadline: 3pm Monday 25th October) Solutions
• Exercise Sheet 3 (hand-in deadline: 3pm Monday 15th November) Solutions
• Exercise Sheet 4 (hand-in deadline: 3pm Monday 29th November) Solutions
• Exercise Sheet 5 (hand-in deadline: 3pm Monday 13th December) Solutions