Math 511: Linear Algebra




Recommended Exercises


On this page you will find recommended exercises for each part of the book that we cover. You are expected to understand the concepts as well as the computations involved in completing each of the exercises.


Part I: Vector Spaces and Linear Transformations (Chapters 3 and 4)

Section 3.1: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Section 3.2: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 23, 25, 26
Section 3.3: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15
Section 3.4: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17
Section 3.5: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Section 4.1: 7, 10, 16, 19, 21, 22, 25
Section 4.2: 5, 7, 14, 15, 20

Exam Date: 26 February 2018



Part II: Orthogonality (Chapter 5)

Section 5.1: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 18
Section 5.2: 2, 4, 6
Section 5.4: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 25, 26, 30, 32
Section 5.6: 1, 3, 4, 8

Exam Date: 9 April 2018



Part III: Eigentheory (Chapter 6)

Section 6.1: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 21, 24, 26, 32
Section 6.2: 1, 2, 3! (do 3 first and apply its result to 2)
Section 6.3: 1, 2, 3, 6, 18, 19, 30?, 31, 32, 34

Exam Date: 30 April 2018



For extra practice with matrix theory/computations, try these:

Section 1.1: 1(ab), 2(ab), 5(ac), 6(adg), 7, 8, 9
Section 1.2: 1, 2, 3(be), 6(bc), 8, 10, 13, 14
Section 1.3: 1, 2(abf), 10, 15, 16
Section 1.4: 3, 4, 5, 7, 21, 22, 24(ab), 27, 34, 35
Section 1.5: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8(ab), 10(abcd), 16, 21, 26
Section 1.6: 1, 4(cd), 6, 8, 12, 22

Section 2.1: 1-6 all, 8, 9, 11, 12
Section 2.2: 1-7 all, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19
Section 2.3: 1-13 all




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