Linear Algebra: Core Topics for the First Course

By Dragu Atanasiu, Piotr Mikusinski, TBD

The book is an introduction to linear algebra intended as a textbook for the first course in linear algebra. In the first six chapters we present the core topics: matrices, the vector space R n, orthogonality in R n, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and linear transformations. The book gives students an opportunity to better understand linear algebra in the next three chapters: Jordan forms by examples, singular value decomposition, and quadratic forms and positive definite matrices.

In the first nine chapters everything is formulated in terms of R n. This makes the ideas of linear algebra easier to understand. The general vector spaces are introduced in Chapter 10. The last chapter presents problems solved with a computer algebra system. At the end of the book we have results or solutions for odd numbered exercises.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811215022
• ISBN13: 9789811215025
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.6"