Elementary Linear Algebra With Applications - Hardcover

Hill, Richard O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0155210920 ISBN 13: 9780155210929

Publisher: Harcourt College Pub, 1991

Synopsis

Elementary Linear Algebra With Applications [hardcover] Hill, Richard O. [Mar 01, 1991]

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About the Author

Julia Butterfly Hill, twenty-six, is a writer, a poet, and an activist. She helped found the Circle of Life Foundation to promote the sustainability, restoration, and preservation of life. The foundation is sponsored by the nonprofit Trees Foundation, which works toward the conservation and preservation of forest ecosystems. Hill has been the recipient of many honors and awards, and is a frequent speaker for environmental conferences around the world.

Review

Preface. List of Applications. 1. Introduction to Linear Equations and Matrices. Introduction to Linear Systems and Matrices. Gaussian Elimination. The Algebra of Matrices: Four Descriptions of the Product. Inverses and Elementary Matrices. Gaussian Elimination as a Matrix Factorization. Transposes, Symmetry, and Band Matrices: An Application. Numerical and Programming Considerations: Partial Pivoting, Overwriting Matrices, and Ill-Conditioned Systems. Review Exercises. 2. Determinants. The Determinant Function. Properties of Determinants. Finding det A Using Signed Elementary Products. Cofactor Expansion: Cramer's Rule. Applications. Review Exercises. 3. Vector Spaces. Vectors in 2- and 3-Spaces. Euclidean n-Space. General Vector Spaces. Subspaces, Span, Null Spaces. Linear Independence. Basis and Dimension. The Fundamental Subspaces of a Matrix; Rank. Coordinates and Change of Basis. An Application: Error-Correcting Codes. Review Exercises. Cumulative Review Exercises. 4. Linear Transformations, Orthogonal Projections and Least Squares. Matrices as Linear Transformation. Relationships Involving Inner Products. Least Squares and Orthogonal Projections. Orthogonal Bases and the Gram-Schmidt Process. Orthogonal Matrices, QR Decompositions, and Least Squares (Revisited). Encoding the QR Decompositions: A Geometric Approach. General Matrices of Linear of Linear Transformations; Similarity. Review Exercises. Cumulative Review Exercises. 5. Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues. A Brief Introduction to Determinants. Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors. Diagonalization. Symmetric Matrices. An Application - Difference Equations: Fibonacci Sequences and Markov Processes. An Application -Differential Equations. An Application -- Quadratic Forms. Solving the Eigenvalue Problem Numerically. Review Exercises. Cumulative Review Exercises. 6. Further Directions. Function Spaces. The Singular Value Decomposition -- Generalized Inverses, the General Least-Squares Problem, and an Approach to Ill-Conditioned Systems. Iterative Method. Matrix Norms. General Vector Spaces and Linear Transformations Over an Arbitrary Field. Review Exercises. Appendix A: More on LU Decompositions. Appendix B: Counting Operations and Gauss-Jordan Elimination. Appendix C: Another Application. Appendix D: Introduction to MATLAB and Projects. Bibliography and Further Readings. Index.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harcourt College Pub
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0155210920
• ISBN 13: 9780155210929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 425