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But tomorrow's topic is as in the previous message: Linear independence and rank. 

• There is a seminar next week, no changes to that; seminar problems posted. 
• We are done with nonlinear programming? Next Thursday: linear independence and rank.
• Contact student is Iman Ghayoornia; lightly spamshielded e-mail is imang [?tt] student.sv.uio.no

I have corrected the number and date. If you had the chance to do last week's set, you would have caught which one is for the upcoming.

I think I will go on posting the current one at the top, and then moving things down for reference (rather than deleting). 

- Nils 

Problems posted, a bit fewer than last week, since nonlinear programming could take some time. 

Practicalities (which I forgot in the heat of the action both yesterday and today):

• The course needs a contact student or two.
• If the folder with old exam problems should suddenly disappear, then please let me know ASAP. It happened last semester Mathematics 2, because all too many people have write access.
• I may "run out of problems" for the seminar in one week and a half - a few of those that fit, are maybe better suited for the longer break. We might consider shuffling lectures and seminars once again.

I updated the schedule, but forgot to post a message about it, sorry for the latter.

By request, you can also find two notes on the find-the-Hessian problem here.

More on quadratic forms. Linear constraints.

• First: You might have been confused by my writing x and y for arguments in quasiconcavity. That was to avoid the "u" (which you would likely use for utility?), but the y has nothing to do with the value of the function.
• The Thursday lecture will - at least in part - be problems. I have written a problem set.
  (That document will be a "live document" which I will update with seminar problems for each week.)

So Wednesdays from 14 was vacant everyone's schedules? Good. 

I will be in office at that timeslot and an hour - and more if needed. (You are by all means free to knock on my door at other times too, but I cannot commit to being there all the time.)

I have filled in only a very few cells in the schedule, as we may - or may not - schedule a "seminar"-type activity for one of the early slots (before the ordinary seminars officially start).

The order of topics, and the reading list, will be as last year - with reservations for changes. 

Notice that you only need either the English-language or the Norwegian-language version of the curruculum. (The English FMEA includes what we need of linear algebra, while the Norwegian MAII does not, which is why there is a separate linear algebra book in Norwegian language.)

- Nils