AuthorStrang, Gilbert
TitleIntroduction to linear algebra / Gilbert Strang
Imprint Wellesley, MA : Wellesley-Cambridge Press, c2009
Edition 4th ed
Descript ix, 574 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

1: Introduction To Vectors: -- 1-1: Vectors and linear combinations -- 1-2: Lengths and dot products -- 1-3: Matrices -- 2: Solving Linear Equations: -- 2-1: Vectors and linear equations -- 2-2: Idea of elimination -- 2-3: Elimination using matrices -- 2-4: Rules for matrix operations -- 2-5: Inverse matrices -- 2-6: Elimination = factorization: A = LU -- 2-7: Transposes and permutations -- 3: Vector Spaces And Subspaces: -- 3-1: Spaces of vectors -- 3-2: Nullspace of A: Solving Ax = 0 -- 3-3: Rank and the row reduced form -- 3-4: Complete solution to Ax = b -- 3-5: Independence, basis and dimension -- 3-6: Dimensions of the four subspaces -- 4: Orthogonality: -- 4-1: Orthogonality of the four subspaces -- 4-2: Projections -- 4-3: Least squares approximations -- 4-4: Orthogonal bases and gram-Schmidt -- 5: Determinants -- 5-1: Properties of determinants -- 5-2: Permutations and cofactors -- 5-3: Cramer's rule, inverses, and volumes -- 6: Eigenvalues And Eigenvectors: -- 6-1: Introduction to eigenvalues -- 6-2: Diagonalizing a matrix -- 6-3: Applications to differential equations -- 6-4: Symmetric matrices -- 6-5: Positive definite matrices -- 6-6: Similar matrices -- 6-7: Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) -- 7: Linear Transformations: -- 7-1: Idea of a linear transformation -- 7-2: Matrix of a linear transformation -- 7-3: Diagonalization and the pseudoinverse -- 8: Applications: -- 8-1: Matrices in engineering -- 8-2: Graphs and networks -- 8-3: Markov matrices, population, and economics -- 8-4: Linear programming -- 8-5: Fourier series: linear algebra for functions -- 8-6: Linear algebra for statistics and probability -- 8-7: Computer graphics -- 9: Numerical Linear Algebra: -- 9-1: Gaussian elimination in practice -- 9-2: Norms and condition numbers -- 9-3: Iterative methods and preconditioners -- 10: Complex vectors and matrices -- 10-1: Complex numbers -- 10-2: Hermitian and unitary matrices -- 10-3: Fast Fourier transform -- Solutions to selected exercises -- Conceptual questions for review -- Glossary: A dictionary for linear algebra -- Matrix factorizations -- Teaching codes -- Index -- Linear algebra in a nutshell


SUBJECT

  1. Algebras
  2. Linear -- Textbooks
  3. Algebra -- Textbooks
  4. Mathematics -- Textbooks
  5. Álgebra linear
  6. Algebras
  7. Linear Textbooks

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