PART I A Guide to the Paradigmatical Cases (Episodes) Presented in this Chapter

The following table contains contextual information with regard to the 8 Episodes presented in this Chapter.

Episode Number

Time of Incident

Term - Week

Participants

Mathematical Content

1

Michaelmas 5

four pairs of students in one college

span of a set

2

Michaelmas 6

four pairs of students in one college

subspaces of a vector space, the Subspace Test

3

Michaelmas 6

Connie

LA5.23&24, spanning sets

4

Michaelmas 7

Jack and Andrew

LA6.26, bases of a vector space

5

Michaelmas 7

Jack and Andrew

LA6.29, bases of a vector space, dimension of a vector space

6

Michaelmas 8

four pairs of students in one college

the matrix of a linear mapping between two vector spaces and an example from P3(¬)

7

Michaelmas 8

Cathy and George

LA7.35, image, kernel and the Rank and Nullity Theorem

8

Hilary 2

two pairs from one college

B3, mappings, matrices and bases

 

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