620-142 Mathematics B First Semester, 2008

620-142 Textbooks

You will need to obtain the 620-142 Mathematics B Lecture Notebook, Edition 7. This is available from the University of Melbourne Bookroom. It contains outlines of the lectures for this semester with the main results highlighted for you. There is space for you to write down the solutions to examples and other material covered in the lectures.

The prescribed textbook for this subject is

• H. Anton and C. Rorres, Elementary Linear Algebra, Applications Version, 9th Edition, Wiley 2005.

  For worked solutions to problems go to ar_solutions.html .

This is the same as the prescribed text for Mathematics A, 620-141. Alternatively you may use

• S. Venit and W. Bishop, Elementary Linear Algebra, Brooks/Cole Pub., 4th Ed., 1995.

References for modular arithmetic include:

• D.A. Holton and J.W. Lloyd, Algebra and geometry, Charles Babbage Research Centre, 1978.
• T. H. Jackson, Number theory, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975.
• H. Davenport, The higher arithmetic : an introduction to the theory of numbers, Cambridge University Press, 1999 (or previous editions).
• J. H. Silverman, A friendly introduction to number theory, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.

References for coding theory include:

• S. Barnett, Some modern applications of mathematics, Prentice Halll, 1995.
• R.Hill, A first course in Coding theory, Clarendon Press, 1986

Copies of these books will be on reserve in the Baillieu library or the Mathematics/Statistics library.