MTM 206

Elementary Linear Algebra

Touhid Hossain
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Dhaka
  MTM 206: Elementary Linear Algebra 2 credits

1. Matrices and Determinants: Notion of matrix. Types of matrices. Matrix operations, laws of matrix Algebra. Determinant
function. Properties of determinants. Minors, Cofactors, expansion and evaluation of determinants. Elementary row and
column operations and row-reduced echelon matrices. Invertible matrices.

2. System of Linear Equations: Introduction to system of Linear equations. Homogeneous and non-homogeneous equations.
Gaussian and Gauss-Jordan eliminations. Application of matrices and determinants for solving system of linear equations.
Cramer’s rule.

3. Vector in : Review of geometric vectors in and space. Vectors in . Inner product, Norm and distance in , orthogonality,
geometric interpretation of a system of linear equations, cross product.

4. Real vector space and linear transformations: Axiomatic formulation of an abstract real vector space, vector subspaces,
span, linear independence, coordinates and basis, dimension of a real vector space, tensor product and direct sum of vector
spaces, change of basis, row space, column space and null space, rank, nullity, rank-nullity theorem.

5. Spectral analysis of linear transformations: Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, degeneracy, diagonalization, Caley Hamilton
theorem, sym-metric matrices and quadratic form, Jordan canonical form.

6. Complex vector space: Vectors in , complex Euclidean inner product and norm, Complex Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors,
Hermitian, unitary and normal matrices, finding Eigenvalues and Eigen-vectors of Hermitian matrices, unitary diagonalization
of a Hermitian matrix.
References:

1. Elementary Linear Algebra (Application Version), Howard Anton, Chris Rorres, 11th
Edition.
2. Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction, David Poole, 3rd Edition.
3. Linear Algebra and its Applications, David C. Lay, 4th Edition.
4. Introduction to Linear Algebra, Gilbert Strang, 5th Edition.