Linear algebra
Subtitle: concepts and methods
By: Martin Anthony and Michele Harvey, Department of Mathematics, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Contributors: Harvey, Michele
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780521279482
Subjects: Linear Algebras; MATHEMATICS / Algebra / General
Description: "Any student studying linear algebra will welcome this textbook, which provides a thorough, yet concise, treatment of key topics in university linear algebra courses. Blending practice and theory, the book enables students to practice and master the standard methods as well as understand how they actually work. At every stage the authors take care to ensure that the discussion is no more complicated or abstract than it needs to be, and focuses only on the fundamental topics. Hundreds of examples and exercises, including solutions, give students plenty of hands-on practice End-of-chapter sections summarise material to help students consolidate their learning Ideal as a course text and for self-study Instructors can use the many examples and exercises to supplement their own assignments Both authors have extensive experience of undergraduate teaching and of preparation of distance learning materials"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface; Preliminaries: before we begin; 1. Matrices and vectors; 2. Systems of linear equations; 3. Matrix inversion and determinants; 4. Rank, range and linear equations; 5. Vector spaces; 6. Linear independence, bases and dimension; 7. Linear transformations and change of basis; 8. Diagonalisation; 9. Applications of diagonalisation; 10. Inner products and orthogonality; 11. Orthogonal diagonalisation and its applications; 12. Direct sums and projections; 13. Complex matrices and vector spaces; 14. Comments on exercises; Index.