Linear Algebra: Core Topics For The First Course: Core Topics for the First Course

The book is an introduction to linear algebra intended as a textbook for the first course in linear algebra.\n\nIn the first six chapters we present the core topics: matrices, the vector space ?n, orthogonality in ?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 ?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.Linear Algebra: Core Topics For The First Course: Core Topics for the First Course is written by Dragu Atanasiu; Piotr Mikusinski and published by World Scientific. ISBNs for Linear Algebra: Core Topics For The First Course are 9789811215049, 9811215049 and the print ISBNs are 9789811215025, 9811215022.