Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory - Softcover

Gilbert, Jimmie

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9781493307364: Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493307363 ISBN 13: 9781493307364

Publisher: Academic Press, 1991

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Intended for a serious first course or a second course, this textbook will carry students beyond eigenvalues and eigenvectors to the classification of bilinear forms, to normal matrices, to spectral decompositions, and to the Jordan form. The authors approach their subject in a comprehensive and accessible manner, presenting notation and terminology clearly and concisely, and providing smooth transitions between topics. The examples and exercises are well designed and will aid diligent students in understanding both computational and theoretical aspects. In all, the straightest, smoothest path to the heart of linear algebra.

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About the Author:

Jimmie Gilbert was Professor of Mathematics at the University of South Carolina, Upstate. He received his Ph.D from Auburn University with a specialty in Linear and Abstract Algebras. He authored the first edition of Elements of Modern Algebra in 1970, joined on subsequent editions by his wife and longtime co-author Linda Gilbert. Together they have published titles in College Algebra, Precalculus, College Algebra and Trigonometry, Trigonometry, Intermediate Algebra, and another Cengage Learning title, Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory, now in its second edition. He and Linda have 6 children and 8 grandchildren. In his leisure time Jimmie enjoyed the outdoors, fishing, and gardening.

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"...the material is well-written, it will be easy to teach from, and the students will find it easy to read and study from."
-Jackie Garner, University of Arkansas
"Jimmie and Linda Gilbert...present material at the appropriate level in a quick and concise manner....Some...texts do not develop enough mathematical sophistication to enable the transition to junior- or senior-level linear algebra courses. The Gilbert text does!"
--Melvyn Jeter, Illinois WesleyanUniversity
"The notation and terminology are clear and concise and the flow of topics and concepts is smooth."
-Ed Dixon, Tennessee Technological University
"I am...quite enthusiastic about the arrangement of topics which the Gilberts have chosen....(The Gilberts Chapter 1 plays as a sort of overture, in which the main elements of vector space theory are laid out in a comfortable space, while due attention is paid to the role of computation. I think this type of start to a course would orient the students properly toward general vector space theory, rather than having them come upon the annoying complication of vector spaces after three or more weeks spent exclusively in computation and row reduction."
-Edward Hinson, University of New Hampshire

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