Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Pilani Campus AUGS/ AGSR Division
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Pilani Campus AUGS/ AGSR Division
Pilani Campus
AUGS/ AGSR Division
1. Scope and Objective of the Course: The course is meant as an introduction to Linear
Algebra and Theory of Functions of Complex Variable and their applications.
2. Course Description: System of linear equations, Vector spaces, Basis and dimension of
vector spaces, Linear transformations, Range and kernel, Eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
Function of complex variables and their analyticity, Elementary functions, Integration,
Taylor and Laurent series expansions, Calculus of residues and its applications.
3. Text Books:
(i) Elementary Linear Algebra with Supplemental Applications by H. Anton and Chris
Rorres, 11th Edition, 2014, John Wiley & Sons.
(ii) Complex Variables and Applications by R.V. Churchill and J.W. Brown, 8th Edition,
2014, McGraw-Hill.
4. Reference Books:
(i) Elementary Linear Algebra by S. Andrilli and D. Hecker, 4th Edition, 2012, Elsevier.
(ii) Introductory Linear Algebra: An Applied First Course by Bernard Kolman and David R.
Hill, 9th Edition, 2014, Prentice Hall.
(iii) Introduction to Linear Algebra with applications by J. Defranza and D. Gagliardi,
2012, McGraw-Hill Education.
(iv) A First Course in Complex Analysis with Applications by Dennis G. Zill & Patrick
Shanahan, 2nd Edition, 2009, Jones & Bartlett.
(v) Complex Variables with Applications by A. D. Wunsch, 3rd Edition, 2004, Pearson
Education
1 System of linear L1-L4 Introduction to Systems 1.1, 1.2, Solving system of linear equations
equations and of Linear Equations, Gaussian 1.5, 1.6 and finding inverse of a matrix
elementary row Elimination, Elementary using row operations
operations on Matrices and finding inverse
matrices of a matrix using elementary
row operations
2 Concepts of real L5-L8 Real Vector Spaces, 4.1 - 4.3 Introduction to abstract vector
vector spaces and Subspaces, Linear spaces, finite dimensional vector
subspaces Independence spaces and related concepts.
3 Concepts of L9-L12 Basis, Dimension, 4.4 - 4.5, Finding minimal subset of a vector
basis, dimension Row Space, Column Space, 4.7 - 4.8 space to generate the complete
and rank of a and Null Space, Rank, Nullity vector space.
matrix of a matrix
4 Linear L13-L15 General Linear 8.1 - 8.3
Students will be able to
Transformation Transformations, Dimension understand basic properties of
and properties theorem for linear linear transformations and to
transformations, Isomorphism check whether the transformation
is invertible or not.
5 Coordinate L16-L17 Coordinates, Change 4.4, 4.6, 8.4 Applying coordinate
representation and of Basis, Matrices for General representation to compute matrix
applications Linear Transformations of a linear transformation
6 Eigenvalues and L18 Eigenvalues and 5.1 Computing eigenvalues and
eigenvectors eigenvectors. eigenvectors.
6. Evaluation Scheme:
7. Chamber Consultation Hours (CCH): To be announced in the respective tutorial class by the respective
instructor and Google meet link will be shared for the same. Before to join google meet for CCH, students are
advised to inform well in advance to the respective instructor through mail.
8. Notices: All notices in relation to the above course will be put up on NALANDA/ Google Classroom.
Jitender Kumar
Instructor-In-Charge
MATH F112