Pseudo-Weekly Assignments.


ntbhi means not to be handed in


Assignment 1. 1. 19/1-8,9-15(ntbhi)


Assignment 2. 1. 35/1-4,6,12


(5,7-9(ntbhi))

Assignment 3. 1. 35/8-11

36/3,14

Do the rest of the problems in Chapter 2 (ntbhi).

59/1,2


Assignment 4. 1. (ntbhi) Read the rest of Chapter 3 and relate the material to 1-1, onto, dim(V)-dim(N(T))=dim(Range(T)), etc.

2. Do the fake quiz(zes).

3. 59/3,4,do 6 in the case n=2, 7,9-12, do the rest of the exercises (ntbhi).

Assignment 5. 61/19-25


Assignment 6. 188/5,6,9,10,11(use the ideas we've been using to prove the Jordan form theorem; look at Prop. 2.19; try n=2 first)

If N is nilpotent (of order q), then I+N is 1-1 (or equivalently, invertible).

Start reading Chapter 8.


Assignment 7. (Due date: 4/22/09) Write up a proof of the Jordan canonical form for nilpotent matrices of order 4.