Math 247S, Winter2012


MAT247 - Winter 2012
Faculty: Vitali Kapovitch Office: HU1023 Telephone: (416)-978-6786 email: vtk@math.toronto.edu Office Hours : Th 2-4 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever". --Chinese Proverb	Teaching Assistants : Boris Lishak Office: SS622 Telephone: 416-978-2967 email: bors@math.utoronto.ca Siddarth Sankaran Office HU1026 Telephone: 416-946-3646 email: sankaran@math.utoronto.ca

Friedberg, Insel, Spence, Linear Algebra
Armstrong: Groups and Symmetry

Homework- 25%
Term Test - 30%
Final Exam - 45%

Extra credit - 3%

Homework assignments will be posted every Tuesday after the lecture. They will be due the following Tuesday at the lecture.
NO late homework will be accepted.
Extra credit can be earned by submitting solutions to extra credit homework problems and by spotting mistakes during lectures
Important: There will be no make up midterms! If you have a valid reason to miss the term test, the corresponding portion of the Final exam will count as your term test grade.

The Final Exam Review will take place Tuesday, April 10, 5-7 pm in BA 1220. Please note the room change!
Here are the solutions to the practice final.
The Final Exam will cover the material from lectures, homework and the following sections: 6.1-6.6 and 4.1-5.1 from the Friedberg and Spence and Chapters 2-7, 9, 10, 11 from Armstrong. From those sections only the material covered in class and on the homework will be on the test.
Rules for the test: No aids allowed. Unless otherwise indicated you can use without proof results from the textbooks and the lectures (but not from homework).
Here is a practice test for the final exam. (Note that the actual final is shorter). I will post solutions to it in a few days.