Tuesday, October 28, 2008

28 October 2008

Today we watched much of Gilbert Strang's lecture #10 from his MIT OpenCourseWare linear algebra course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GmCIoIMlxk We were interested in the 4 fundamental subspaces which are explained therein.

We began to go over the problems from last time and got through the first 2 or 3 of them. We decided that while it's good to work out problems, they often require a deeper degree of study (and time) than we have available. The goal is to understand the concepts, be able to talk about them, and then know WHERE to dig deeper when necessary.

For next time we split the six exercises from chapter 2 up between us. The exercises are the ones with the solutions, unlike the actual problem set. I'm taking 1 and 2, Archana 3 and 4, and Ina 5 and 6. We'll review them on Thursday and set a direction for the weekend and next week.