A Guide to Advanced Linear Algebra

Steven H Weintraub

ISBN 10: 0883853515 / ISBN 13: 9780883853511

Verlag: Mathematical Association Of America (MAA) Jul 2011, 2011

Beschreibung

Neuware - Linear algebra occupies a central place in modern mathematics. This book provides a rigorous and thorough development of linear algebra at an advanced level, and is directed at graduate students and professional mathematicians. It approaches linear algebra from an algebraic point of view, but its selection of topics is governed not only for their importance in linear algebra itself, but also for their applications throughout mathematics. Students in algebra, analysis, and topology will find much of interest and use to them, and the careful treatment and breadth of subject matter will make this book a valuable reference for mathematicians throughout their professional lives. Topics treated in this book include: vector spaces and linear transformations; dimension counting and applications; representation of linear transformations by matrices; duality; determinants and their uses; rational and especially Jordan canonical form; bilinear forms; inner product spaces; normal linear transformations and the spectral theorem; and an introduction to matrix groups as Lie groups. The book treats vector spaces in full generality, though it concentrates on the finite dimensional case. Also, it treats vector spaces over arbitrary fields, specializing to algebraically closed fields or to the fields of real and complex numbers as necessary.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780883853511

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Guide to Advanced Linear Algebra
• Verlag: Mathematical Association Of America (MAA) Jul 2011
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0883853515
• ISBN-13: 9780883853511
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

The core of linear algebra is essential to most mathematicians. This book is ideal for graduate students and the careful treatment and breadth of subject matter will make this book a valuable reference for mathematicians throughout their professional lives.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steven H. Weintraub is Professor of Mathematics at Lehigh University. He is the author of over fifty research papers and this is his ninth book.