|
|
|
Mathematics Seminar
Series Date: Thursday
September 20th 2007 Time: 1-2 pm Place: Namm 723 Abstract of the Talk by: Dr. Ezra Halleck Using Technology in a Sophomore Linear Algebra Course |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I will
review some nuts and bolts stuff. MATLAB is well integrated with Lay’s Linear
Algebra, 3e, the present text in use. I will show how a handful of commands
and tools built-in or provided by the author facilitate and reinforce the
basic calculations that students are asked to do. Next, I will introduce a
few of the tools that can be obtained via the internet for some geometrical
aspects of the course, e.g., the transformation of the unit square into a
parallelogram, the unit circle into an ellipse, the unit cube into a
parallelepiped and the unit sphere into an ellipsoid. There will be plenty of
time for discussion as each of the half-dozen or so faculty who have taught
or are teaching the course will want to put in their 2 cents. I should add
that the presentation will be followed later in the year by a more advanced
presentation with some rather exciting applications given by Prof. Satyanand Singh.
|
|
|
|
Organized by Hans Schoutens and Delaram Kahrobaei |
|
|
|
Address: © 2007 (since August
2007) |
