Advanced Linear Algebra (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) - Softcover

Steven Roman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387978372 ISBN 13: 9780387978376

Publisher: Springer, 1995

Synopsis

This graduate level textbook covers an especially broad range of topics. The first part of the book contains a careful but rapid discussion of the basics of linear algebra. The author then proceeds to a discussion of modules, emphasizing a comparison with vector spaces.

About this title

From the Back Cover

For the third edition, the author has added a new chapter on associative algebras that includes the well known characterizations of the finite-dimensional division algebras over the real field (a theorem of Frobenius) and over a finite field (Wedderburn's theorem); polished and refined some arguments (such as the discussion of reflexivity, the rational canonical form, best approximations and the definitions of tensor products); upgraded some proofs that were originally done only for finite-dimensional/rank cases; added new theorems, including the spectral mapping theorem; considerably expanded the reference section with over a hundred references to books on linear algebra.

From the reviews of the second edition:

"In this 2nd edition, the author has rewritten the entire book and has added more than 100 pages of new materials....As in the previous edition, the text is well written and gives a thorough discussion of many topics of linear algebra and related fields...the exercises are rewritten and expanded....Overall, I found the book a very useful one....It is a suitable choice as a graduate text or as a reference book."

Ali-Akbar Jafarian, ZentralblattMATH

"This is a formidable volume, a compendium of linear algebra theory, classical and modern... The development of the subject is elegant...The proofs are neat...The exercise sets are good, with occasional hints given for the solution of trickier problems...It represents linear algebra and does so comprehensively."

Henry Ricardo, MAA Online

About the Author

Steven Roman, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the California State University, Fullerton. His previous books with O'Reilly include "Access Database Design and Programming," "Writing Excel Macros with VBA," and "Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic."

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0387978372
• ISBN 13: 9780387978376
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 363