Math 218D-1 Spring 2023

Welcome

Welcome to Math 218D! I will post almost all course materials on this page. Please check back for information about homework assignments, exams, and additional resources. You should probably read the syllabus.

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Instructors

Joe Rabinoff
Joe Rabinoff

Joe Rabinoff

jdr@math.duke.edu
Math & Physics 243
Office Hours:
Tunoon–1pmGross Hall 104
W1:30–3:30pmGross Hall 111
Eylem Yildiz
Eylem Yildiz

Eylem Yildiz

eylem.yildiz@duke.edu
Math & Physics 114
Office Hours:
Tu5:30–6:45pmMath & Physics 113
Th1–2:15pmZoom (see Sakai)
Edna Jones
Edna Jones

Edna Jones

edna.jones@duke.edu
Office Hours:
W9:30–11:30amMath & Physics 205
Bowen Li
Bowen Li

Bowen Li

bowen.li200@duke.edu
Office Hours:
M7:30–10pmGross Hall 330

Classes

Lecture Instructor Location Time
218D-1 (001) Joe Rabinoff Math & Physics 130 TTh 10:15–11:30am
218D-1 (002) Eylem Yildiz Math & Physics 130 TTh 3:30–4:45pm
Problem Session Instructor Location Time
218D-1 (01D) Bowen Li Social Sciences 119 F 8:30–9:45am
218D-1 (02D) Bowen Li Perkins 071 F 10:15–11:30am
218D-1 (03D) Edna Jones LSRC A247 F noon–1:15pm
218D-1 (04D) Edna Jones Social Sciences 119 F 3:30–4:45pm

Resources

Syllabus
Sakai Site
Ed Discussion
Gradescope help

Access Gradescope by clicking on the tab in Sakai.

Textbook

Strang
Strang, Introduction to Linear Algebra
The official text for the course is Introduction to Linear Algebra (5th Ed) by Gilbert Strang, Wellesley–Cambridge Press/SIAM (2016). However, we will follow Strang only loosely. Another good reference is the online text Interactive Linear Algebra, by Dan Margalit and Joe Rabinoff.

Help

Office Hours
Your first stop for help should be office hours! Joe, Eylem, Edna, and Bowen will be holding plenty (times listed above), and you should not hesitate to show up with questions and chat with the other students there.
Ed Discussion
Ask questions on Ed Discussion. Your instructors and fellow students are happy to post answers for everyone to see, and usually do so much more quickly than someone can respond to an email message.
Help Rooms
Help Rooms
The Math Department operates several Help Rooms to provide assistance to students in lower-level courses. Students are invited to drop by the Help Rooms whenever they are open. No appointment is necessary. If you can't make the scheduled office hours, send us an email and we'll set up a meeting.
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Schedule

  Topic and Section Materials Homework
Week 1: 1/9 Introduction Joe's Notes
Demo: Best fit ellipse
Demo: Rabbit population
Demo: A Plane
Demo: Two Planes 		Homework #1
Due 1/18
11:59pm

Note: HW#1 covers the recorded lecture.
Vectors and Matrices (Ch. 1, 2.4, 2.7) Joe's Notes

Recorded: Watch on WarpWire (on Sakai) before the second lecture.
Problem Session
Week 2: 1/16 Solving Equations: Elimination (2.2) Joe's Notes Homework #2
Due 1/25
11:59pm
Gauss–Jordan Algorithm (2.2, 2.5) Joe's Notes
Gauss–Jordan Slideshow
Rabinoff's Reliable Row Reducer
Problem Session
Week 3: 1/23 LU Decomposition (2.3, 2.6) Joe's Notes Homework #3
Due 2/1
11:59pm
Parametric Form Joe's Notes
Demo: Parameterized Line
Demo: Parameterized Plane
Problem Session
Week 4: 1/30 Spans (3.2, 3.3) Joe's Notes
Demo: A vector
Demo: Scalar multiplication
Demo: Vector addition
Demo: Vector subtraction
Demo: Linear combinations of two vectors in R2
Demo: Linear combinations of two vectors in R3
Demo: Linear combinations of three vectors in R3
Demo: Span of 1 vector in R2
Demo: Span of 2 vectors in R2
Demo: Span of 1 vector in R3
Demo: Span of 2 vectors in R3
Demo: Span of 3 vectors in R3
Demo: Column Picture for Consistency: Consistent
Demo: Column Picture for Consistency: Inconsistent
Demo: Row/column picture: parallel lines
Demo: Row/column picture: sometimes inconsistent 		Homework #4
Due 2/8
11:59pm
Subspaces (3.1, 3.2) Joe's Notes
Demo: Column and Null Space
Problem Session
Week 5: 2/6 Linear Independence and Basis (3.4, 3.5) Joe's Notes
Demo: Coplanar vectors
Demo: Redundant parameterization
Demo: Linearly dependent vectors
Demo: Linearly independent vectors
Demo: Linear (In)dependence of 1 vector
Demo: Linear (In)dependence of 2 vectors
Demo: Linear (In)dependence of 3 vectors
Demo: Linear Dependence of 3 vectors in R2
 Homework #5
Due 2/15
11:59pm
Fundamental Subspaces (3.4, 3.5) Joe's Notes
Demo: Rank-nullity: n=3, r=0
Demo: Rank-nullity: n=3, r=1
Demo: Rank-nullity: n=3, r=2
Demo: Rank-nullity: n=3, r=3
Problem Session
Week 6: 2/13 Orthogonal Complements (3.5, 4.1) Joe's Notes
Demo: Closest vector to b
Demo: Orthogonal complement of one vector
Demo: Orthogonal complement of two vectors
Demo: Orthogonal complements in R2
 Homework #6
Due 2/22
11:59pm
Orthogonal Projections (4.2) Joe's Notes
Demo: Decomposition relative a line in R2
Demo: Decomposition relative a line in R3
Demo: Decomposition relative a plane in R3
Demo: Projection onto a plane
Demo: Projection onto a line
Demo: Projection onto a plane
Friday, 2/17: MIDTERM 1 Practice Midterm and Solutions
Midterm and Solutions
Week 7: 2/20 Projection Matrices (4.2) Joe's Notes Homework #7
Due 3/1
11:59pm
Least Squares (4.3) Joe's Notes
Demo: Least-Squares
Demo: Best-fit line
Demo: Best-fit parabola
Demo: Best-fit trigonometric function
Demo: Best-fit ellipse
Demo: Best-fit ellipse: what is minimized?
Problem Session
Week 8: 2/27 Gram–Schmidt and QR (4.4) Joe's Notes
Demo: Projection formula
 Homework #8
Due 3/8
11:59pm
Determinants I (5.1, 5.3) Joe's Notes
Problem Session
Week 9: 3/6 Determinants II (5.2) Joe's Notes
Supplement: cofactor matrix 		Homework #9
Due 3/22
11:59pm
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (6.1) Joe's Notes
Demo: Rabbits Multiply
Demo: Eigenspaces of a flip
Demo: Eigenspaces of a shear
Demo: Eigenspaces of a rotation
Demo: Eigenspaces of the rabbit matrix
Demo: Eigenspaces of a 3x3 matrix
Demo: Eigenspaces of a projection matrix
Problem Session
SPRING BREAK
Week 10: 3/20 Diagonalization: Vector Form (6.2) Joe's Notes Homework #10
Due 3/29
11:59pm
Diagonalization: Geometry (6.2) Joe's Notes
Dynamics demos:
Problem Session
Week 11: 3/27 Complex Numbers; Euler's Formula (9.1) Joe's Notes

Recorded: Watch on WarpWire (on Sakai) before Tuesday's lecture. 		Homework #11
Due 4/5
11:59pm
AM/GM and Diagonalizability (6.2) Joe's Notes
Supplement: Proof of the AM≥GM theorem

AM/GM demos:
Dynamics with a Complex Eigenvalue
Systems of ODEs (6.3) Joe's Notes
Friday, 3/31: MIDTERM 2 Practice Midterm and Solutions
Midterm and Solutions
Week 12: 4/3 Spectral Theorem (6.4) Joe's Notes
Demo: Eigenspaces of a 3x3 symmetric matrix
Demo: Eigenspaces of a 3x3 symmetric matrix (GM=2)
Demo: Dynamics of a 2x2 symmetric matrix
 Homework #12
Due 4/12
11:59pm
LDLT; Quadratic Optimization (2.7, 6.5) Joe's Notes
Supplement: LDLT and Cholesky
Problem Session
Week 13: 4/10 Quadratic Optimization II (6.5) Joe's Notes Homework #13
Due 4/19
11:59pm
SVD: Outer Product Form (7.1, 7.2) Joe's Notes
Problem Session
Week 14: 4/17 SVD: Matrix Form (7.3) Joe's Notes Homework #14
Due 4/26
11:59pm
PCA I (7.3, 7.4) Joe's Notes
Problem Session
4/25 PCA II (7.3) Joe's Notes Homework #15
(Not collected)
 
Final exams:
218D-1 (001):Thursday, 5/4, 9am–noon
218D-1 (002):Wednesday, 5/3, 2–5pm
 Practice Final and Solutions