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This text is written for a course in linear algebra at the (U.S.) sophomore undergraduate level, preferably directly following a one-variable calculus course, so that linear algebra can be used in a course on multidimensional calculus. Realizing that students at this level have had little contact with complex numbers or abstract mathematics the book deals almost exclusively with real finite-dimensional vector spaces in a setting and formulation that permits easy generalization to abstract vector spaces. The parallel complex theory is developed in the exercises. The book has as a goal the principal axis theorem for real symmetric transformations, and a more or less direct path is followed. As a consequence there are many subjects that are not developed, and this is intentional. However a wide selection of examples of vector spaces and linear trans­ formations is developed, in the hope that they will serve as a testing ground for the theory. The book is meant as an introduction to linear algebra and the theory developed contains the essentials for this goal. Students with a need to learn more linear algebra can do so in a course in abstract algebra, which is the appropriate setting. Through this book they will be taken on an excursion to the algebraic/analytic zoo, and introduced to some of the animals for the first time. Further excursions can teach them more about the curious habits of some of these remarkable creatures.

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Book category Books in German Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik Mathematik Geometrie

• Full title: Linear Algebra
• Author: L Smith
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292
• EAN: 9781461599975
• ISBN: 1461599970
• ID: 39353436
• Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE
• Weight: 413 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. December 2011

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