Math 496 Section 1 - Calendar- Spring 2026

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Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Jan. 26
Lecture #1:
Vector Spaces
Fields
Complex Numbers


Jan. 28
Lecture #2:
Example of Vector Spaces
Subspaces

Homework Due:
Homework #1:
Homework Assignment
Jan. 30
Lecture #3:
Subspaces in Calculus
Sum of Subspaces


Feb. 2
Lecture #4:
Direct Sums


Feb. 4
Lecture #5:
Span
Linear Independence
Bases


Homework Due:
Homework #2:
Homework Assignment
Feb. 6
Quiz #1
Lecture #6:
Dimension

Feb. 9
No class
Feb. 11
Lecture #7:
Dimension of Sum (video)


Homework Due:
Homework #3:
Homework Assignment
Feb. 13
Lecture #8:
Linear Transformations


Feb. 16
Lecture #9:
Vector Space of Linear Transformations
Range and Null Space


Feb. 18
Lecture #10:
Products of Linear Maps
Matrices of Transformations

Homework Due:
Homework #4:
Homework Assignment
Feb. 20
Quiz #2
Lecture #11:
Proof writing primer

Feb. 23
Lecture #12:
Properties of Matrices


Feb. 25
Lecture #13:
LU Decomposition
Inplace LU Decomposition

Homework Due:
Homework #5:
Homework Assignment
Feb. 27
Quiz #3
Lecture #14:
LUP Decomposition


March 2
Lecture #15:
LUP Decomposition
Partial Pivoting
Computing Derivatives

March 4
Lecture #16:
Polynomials

Homework Due:
Homework #6:
Homework Assignment
March 6
Quiz #4
Lecture #17:
Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Complex Algebra

March 9
Lecture #18:
Proof of Fundamental Theorem of Algebra


March 11
Lecture #19:
Polynomials of operators
Invariant subspaces

Homework Due:
Homework #7:
Homework Assignment
March 13
Exam 1
Chapters 1-4
Homework 1-7

March 16
Lecture #20:
Null(p(T))
One Dimensional Invariant Subspaces

March 18
Lecture #21:
Eigenvalues
Linear Independence of Eigenvectors

Homework Due:
Homework #8:
Homework Assignment
March 20
Quiz #5
Lecture #22:
Annihilating polynomial

March 23
Lecture #23:
Minimal Polynomials
Existence of Eigenvalues

March 25
Lecture #24:
Real Eigenvalues

Homework Due:
Homework #9:
Homework Assignment
March 27
Lecture #25:
Upper Triangular Matrices

March 30
Spring Break
April 1
Spring Break
April 3
Spring Break
April 6
Spring Break
April 8
April 10
April 13
April 15
April 17
Exam 2
Topics TBA

April 20
April 22
April 24
April 27
April 29
May 1
May 4
May 6
May 8
May 11
Final Exam
Monday, May 18 at 11 AM


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