MT3501

[Poindexter]

Anyone else finding this a nightmare?

[niall]

I've managed to get over it now, but for the time round about the exam in 2003, eugh!

[hr]

do you have a tastyspoon?

http://www.tastyspoon.com/forum

[md25]

MT3501 was a nightmare when I did it half a decade ago - assuming it's still being taught by that lecturer who can't keep a cohesive train of thought nor write legibly.

Your best bet is to get Schaum's Linear Algebra book off Amazon. Sit down and read through it cover to cover, doing all the exercises along the way. It's the best money you'll ever spend.

[unreg]

Jordan Canonical Form (Harvard):

http://www.math.harvard.edu/~tomc/math121/notes.pdf

Look at KKOP for the bits you don't understand.

Schaum is also good.

Remember that exams between years are similar apart from jan 2006.

[Guest]

Quoting Poindexter from 10:03, 10th Jan 2008
Anyone else finding this a nightmare?

Any difficulties in particular?

[advice]

I did this module 2 years ago, and found that going through all the past papers was a great help. Even if you don't really know what is going on, you can learn the methods well enough, and the papers are all so similar.

I managed to get a decent mark, yet didn't, and still don't have a clue what the course was on.