CSE 3380 - Linear Algebra for CSE

Fall 2025

Last updated on Aug 18, 2025

⭓Description

This is the course page for CSE 3380 - Linear Algebra in Spring 2025. Here you’ll find class notes and other helpful resources. All assignments and announcements will be posted on Canvas.

Instructor Office Hours

Days	Time	Location
MoWeFri	10AM - 11AM	ERB 556A
TuTh	11AM - 12PM	ERB 556A

Teaching Assistant

Section 001: Hayden Lotspeich (hayden.lotspeich@mavs.uta.edu)
Section 002: Keshav Bansal (kxb5527@mavs.uta.edu)

⭓Course Materials

Books

David Lay, Stephen Lay, and Judi McDonald, Linear Algebra and Its Applications (5th ed.), Pearson, 2016.
Sheldon Axler, Linear Algebra Done Right, Springer International Publishing, 2014.
Wanmo Kang, Kyunghyun Cho, Linear Algebra for Data Science, 2024.

Resources

⭓Schedule

This schedule is tentative and may change.

Date	Topic	Materials
Week 1	Course Introduction and Systems of Linear Equations	1.1 and 1.2
Week 2	Row Reduction, Solution Sets, Vectors, and Linear Combinations	1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5
Week 3	Matrix Operations, Block Matrices, and Determinants	2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2
Week 4	Vector Spaces and Subspaces	1.8, 2.8, 4.1, and 4.2
Week 5	Exam 1
Week 6	Linear Independence, Bases, and Linear Transformations	1.8, 4.3
Week 7	Python Crash Course, Computer Graphics	3.3 and 4.4
Week 8	Computer Graphics, Determinants and Volumes, Coordinate Systems	3.3, 4.4, and 4.7
Week 9	Orthogonality	6.1
Week 10	Gram-Schmidt and QR Factorization	6.2, and 6.3
Week 11	Least Squares Solutions	6.5 and 6.6
Week 12	Exam 2
Week 13	Eigendecomposition and Diagonalization	5.1 and 5.2
Week 14	Singular Value Decomposition, Principal Component Analysis	7.1 and 7.4
Week 15	Thanksgiving Break
Week 16	Final Exam Review