To find the volume
of parallelepipeds,
use determinants.


Here are the haikus that the Spring 2025 Math 135A students have permitted me to share.

Winter into spring.
Vectors, spaces, planes and more
My mind is blooming!

Vectors, subspaces
Linear systems solvable,
Basis and transforms

Coordinates bloom
Vectors stretch and intertwine
New worlds start to grow

Performing row swap
Multiplies determinants
By negative one!

Hey you, have you heard?
This spring is all about rows!
Rows? Row reductions!

Hate laid to rest by
Reduced row echelon form
Matrices are fun!

Oh wow, eigenstuff!
It has values and vectors
And explains null space

Redbuds blossoming
The determinant of A
Should be a scalar

Write my last haiku
Hofstra I will miss you so
Good things come to end

If Math were a pal
It would be clever and kind
But... all friends do fight