? Credit Points : 10  ? SCQF Level : 10  ? Acronym : MAT-3-AlgS1

Core course for Honours Degrees in Mathematics and/or Statistics (for students who took "Groups and symmetry" in 2003-04 or earlier). Syllabus summary: Fields (including finite fields), revision of linear maps and the Rank Theorem as a classification result, diagonalisability and minimal polynomials (phenomenological discussion only), symmetric bilinear and quadratic forms, quotient spaces, discretization of DEs, discrete Fourier transform, singular value decomposition.

? Pre-requisites : Passes at C or better in MAT-2-FoC, MAT-2-SVC, MAT-2-LiA, MAT-2-MAM

? Prohibited combinations : MAT-3-Alg, MAT-3-AlgO, Mat-3-AlgS1O, similar courses from Mathematics 3 (Hons) prior to 2004-05

Home subject area

Specialist Mathematics & Statistics (Honours), (School of Mathematics, Schedule P)

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

All of the following classes

Type Day Start End Area Lecture Monday 11:10 12:00 KB Lecture Thursday 11:10 12:00 KB

? Additional Class Information : Supervision: one hour per week (shared with other 'core' courses), at a time to be arranged with Supervisor.

To be provided

Examination only.

Exam times

Diet Diet Month Paper Code Paper Name Length 1ST May 1 - 2 hour(s)

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Mrs Catriona Galloway
Tel : (0131 6)50 4885
Email : C.Galloway@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Prof Douglas Heggie
Tel : (0131 6)50 5035
Email : d.c.heggie@ed.ac.uk

Course Website : http://student.maths.ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/