• Professor: Eugene Lerman
• Office: 336 Illini Hall
• Phone: (217) 244-9510
• email: lerman at illinois edu (the best way to contact Eugene Lerman)
• Home page: http://lerman.web.illinois.edu/
• Course page: http://lerman.web.illinois.edu/~lerman/416/s20/416s20.html
  course notes, homework assignments and review sheets are posted at
  http://lerman.web.illinois.edu/416/s20/416s20hw.html
• Office Hours: see my calender and/or by appointment use Piazza
• Class meets:
  • Section C3H MWF  10 am, 343 Altgeld Hall
• Prerequisites: I expect you to be able to read and write proofs. If you have taken math 347H you are well prepared.

Textbooks: No textbook is required. The following books are recommended

• Friedberg, Insel and Spence Linear algerbra fourth edition (but any other edition is also fine)
• Sergei Treil Linear algerbra done wrong Available free online at http://www.math.brown.edu/~treil/papers/LADW/LADW.html.
  The title is a reaction to Linear algebra done right by Sheldon Axler.

I reserved the right to adjust this formula if you fail the final.

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Last modified: Thu Mar 12 09:37:39 CDT 2020

• Homework: Homework problems are to be assigned once a week. They are due the following week in class, usually on Wednesdays. No late homework will be accepted. There are several reasons why I want the homework to be turned in on time. First of all, if you are not keeping up with the homework, you are not keeping up with the class and then you may well get lost in the lectures. Secondly, it is hard to grade fairly the homework that is turned in late. The grader would have to keep careful track of the grading rubrics and so on. In short late homework means more work for the grader.
• Attendance: of lectures/discussions is expected.

• Exams: There two midterms and a final. All exams will be closed book.

  The midterms will take place on March 6 and April 3 (the dates are not likely to change).

  The final, according to the non-combined final examination schedule is to take place on 7:00-10:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 12 2020

  Requests for a make-up quizzes or exams require a serious documentation and are (almost) never granted. Please plan accordingly. I will drop the lowest homework and quiz scores.

• Grade: The formula for the course grade is roughly as follows:
  • final exam = 35 %
  • 2 midterms at 20 % each = 40%
  • homework, quizzes = 25%