Department

Quantitative Analysis.

Course Code

QUA 204

Course Title

Linear Algebra in Business

Course Credit

3 Credit hours

Prerequisite Course

102 Qua, 131 Math

Course Level

Second or Third level

Course Description

Brief  review of matrices and their  operations - Vector Space: definition of vector space - linear independence and dependence – basis – dimension – orthogonality - dot and vector product - Matrices: rank - elementary row and column operations and their use in finding rank, inverse and solving linear equations systems - Matrix Partitions - Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors. Quadratic forms - Differentiation of the matrices

Course Material

• Introduction to Linear Algebra with Applications, by Jim DeFranza and Daniel Gagliardi. McGraw-Hill (2009).
• Linear Algebra and Its Applications, by Gilbert Strang. Third Edition, Saunders (1988). Fourth Edition, Cengage (2006).

Reading Recommendation

Course Language

English