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MTH2021

Faculty of Science

18 September 2017 20 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Science

Organisational Unit

School of Mathematical Sciences

Coordinator(s)

Dr Tim Garoni

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

Vector spaces, linear transformations. Determinants, eigenvalue problems. Inner products, symmetric matrices, quadratic forms. LU-decomposition, least squares approximation, power method. Applications to coding, economics, networks, graph theory, geometry, dynamical systems, Markov chains, differential equations.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students will be able to:

  1. Understand basic concepts related to vector spaces, including subspace, span, linear independence and basis;

  1. Understand basic properties of linear transformations and identify their kernel and range;

  1. Diagonalize real matrices by computing their eigenvalues and finding their eigenspaces;

  1. Understand basic concepts related to inner product spaces and apply these to problems such as least-squares data fitting;

  1. Apply tools from linear algebra in a wide variety of relevant situations;

  1. Understand and apply relevant numerical methods and demonstrate computational skills in linear algebra;

  1. Present clear mathematical arguments in both written and oral forms.

Assessment

Final examination (3 hours): 70%
Assignments and tests: 30%

Workload requirements

Three 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour support class per week

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Tim Garoni

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Applied mathematics
Financial and insurance mathematics
Mathematical statistics
Mathematics
Pure mathematics

Prerequisites

MTH1030, MTH1035, ENG1005 or equivalent

Prohibitions

MTH2025