Preface
Note to the Reader
Chapter 1.Preliminaries
1.1.Vector Spaces
1.2.Bases and Coordinates
1.3.Linear Transformations
1.4.Matrices
1.5.The Matrix of a Linear Transformation
1.6.Change of Basis and Similarity
1.7.Transposes
1.8.Special Types of Matrices
1.9.Submatrices, Partitioned Matrices, and Block Multiplication
1.10.Invariant Subspaces
1.11.Determinants
1.12.Tensor Products
Exercises
Chapter 2.Inner Product Spaces and Orthogonality
2.1.The Inner Product
2.2.Length, Orthogonality, and Projection onto a Line
2.3.Inner Products in C”
2.4.Orthogonal Complements and Projection onto a Subspace
2.5.Hilbert Spaces and Fourier Series
2.6.Unitary Tranformations
2.7.The Gram-Schmidt Process and QR Factorization
2.8.Linear Functionals and the Dual Space
Exercises
Chapter 3.Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors, Diagonalization, and Triangularization
3.1.Eigenvalues
3.2.Algebraic and Geometric Multiplicity
3.3.Diagonalizability
3.4.A Triangularization Theorem
3.5.The Gersgorin Circle Theorem
3.6.More about the Characteristic Polynomial
3.7.Eigenvalues of AB and BA
Exercises
Chapter 4.The Jordan and Weyr Canonical Forms
4.1.A Theorem of Sylvester and Reduction to Block Diagonal Form
4.2.Nilpotent Matrices
4.3.The Jordan Form of a General Matrix
4.4.The Cayley-Hamilton Theorem and the Minimal Polynomial
4.5.Weyr Normal Form
Exercises
Chapter 5.Unitary Similarity and Normal Matrices
5.1.Unitary Similarity
5.2.Normal Matrices—the Spectral Theorem
5.3.More about Normal Matrices
5.4.Conditions for Unitary Similarity
Exercises
Chapter 6.Hermitian Matrices
6.1.Conjugate Bilinear Forms