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5:00pm On Friday, March 7: Homework #5. Math 60

Homework #5 for Math 60 is due on March 7 and requires students to submit their solutions electronically on Gradescope. The assignment includes reading two stories from the book 'Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey' and answering related questions, as well as proving various properties of functions and linear transformations. Collaboration is encouraged, but each student must submit their own work and indicate any collaboration on their problems.

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5:00pm On Friday, March 7: Homework #5. Math 60

Homework #5 for Math 60 is due on March 7 and requires students to submit their solutions electronically on Gradescope. The assignment includes reading two stories from the book 'Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey' and answering related questions, as well as proving various properties of functions and linear transformations. Collaboration is encouraged, but each student must submit their own work and indicate any collaboration on their problems.

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Homework #5.

Math 60
Due by 5:00pm on Friday, March 7. Please submit solutions (either photocopies of paper
solutions or electronically written/typed files) electronically on Gradescope. Always write full
solutions and remember to justify your arguments carefully.
You are strongly encouraged to collaborate with each other, but each student must submit
their own work. Mark each problem indicating with whom (if anyone) you collaborated. You are
also encouraged to talk about the homework in office hours and mentor sessions.
Good luck, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!
1. The book Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey is a collection of
short autobiographical anecdotes written by mathematicians from diverse backgrounds about
their experiences in the field. You can find it online through this link: https://maa.org/
wp-content/uploads/2024/06/LivingProof_WEB.pdf.
Read any two stories of your choice from Living Proof and answer the following questions. You
are also encouraged to read the Foreword and Preface!
(a) Which two stories did you read, and what were they about?
(b) In each story, what struggle(s) did the author have to overcome, and what strategies or
resources did they use to overcome them?
(c) Did you particularly identify with any of the stories that you read? If so, in what ways? If
you did not identify with any of the stories, what did you learn about the kinds of barriers
that other people might face in their study of mathematics?
2. Let f : A → B and g : B → C be functions.
(a) Prove that if g ◦ f is injective, then f must be injective. Provide a counterexample to show
that g is not necessarily injective.
(b) Prove that if g ◦ f is surjective, then g must be surjective. Provide a counterexample to
show that f is not necessarily surjective.
(c) Prove that if f and g are bijective, then g ◦ f is bijective. Provide a counterexample to
show that the converse is false.
3. Which of the following functions are linear transformations? Remember to justify your answers!
(a) T : R → R, T (x) = 3x + 4
(b) T : P2 (R) → P4 (R), T (p(x)) = x2 p(x) + 2p(x)
(c) T : P2 (R) → P4 (R), T (p(x)) = (p(x))2
(d) T : P2 (R) → R, T (p(x)) = p(0)
(e) T : R2 → F(R, R), T (a, b) = a sin(x) + b cos(x)
(f) T : R2 → F(R, R), T (a, b) = sin(ax) + cos(bx)
Å ã
x1 +x2
(g) T : R2 → R3 , T ( xx12 ) = 0
2x1 −x2
Z x
(h) T : C(R) → C(R), T (f (x)) = f (t)dt, where C(R) is the subspace of F(R, R) consisting
0
of continuous real-valued functions.
4. Suppose you have a linear transformation S : R2 → R2 such that
Ç å Ç å Ç å Ç å
−1 2 3 −4
S = S =
1 1 −1 −3
Ç å
1
(a) What is S ?
0
Ç å
0
(b) What is S ?
1
Ç å
x
(c) Find a formula for S .
y
5. Let V and W be finite-dimensional vector spaces and let β = {v1 , ..., vn } be a basis for V .
(a) Given w1 , ..., wn ∈ W (not necessarily distinct) let T : V → W be the function

T (x) = a1 w1 + ... + an wn ,

where a1 , ..., an ∈ R are the unique scalars such that x = a1 v1 + ... + an vn . Show that T
is a linear transformation such that T (vi ) = wi for all i = 1, .., n.
(b) Suppose that T1 : V → W and T2 : V → W are linear transformations such that T1 (vi ) =
T2 (vi ) for all i = 1, ..., n. Show that T1 (v) = T2 (v) for all v ∈ V .
Remark: Problem 5(a) and Problem 5(b) together show that it is enough to specify a linear
transformation by its image of a basis! In other words, we can define a (unique!) linear
transformation by just defining its image of the basis vectors.

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