Math 307 Exam 1 Review

The first midterm will be held in class on Friday, February 11. It will be a closed-book, closed-notes exam, and will cover all material covered in class through Wednesday, February 9. This includes in particular all of chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the textbook.

You will be asked for complete definitions (including appropriate context, e.g., what kind of thing might be linearly independent?) of some subset of the following terms. Remember that a complete mathematical definition leaves no room for ambiguity: if you give me a definition of what it means for a list of vectors to be linearly independent, I need to be able to use it, in principle anyway, to decide whether or not any list of vectors I ever meet is linearly independent.

In lieu of review problems, I advise you primarily to study the homework problems. Do them again from scratch, compare your solutions to the ones I handed out in class, then do them again a few days later. For more preparation, start on other problems from the book.

Also, I suggest reading this article about study habits.

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