Introduction to linear algebra : computation, application and theory /
Introduction to Linear Algebra: Computation, Application and Theory is designed for students who have never been exposed to the topics in a linear algebra course. The text is Ơ̐¹lled with interesting and diverse application sections but is also a theoretical text which aims to train students to do s...
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Chapman and Hall/CRC,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Examples of Vector Spaces. 1.1. First Vector Space: Tuples. 1.2. Dot Product. 1.3. Application: Geometry. 1.4. Second Vector Space: Matrices. 1.5. Matrix Multiplication. 2. Matrices and Linear Systems. 2.1. Systems of Linear Equations. 2.2. Gaussian Elimination. 2.3. Application: Markov Chains. 2.4. Application: The Simplex Method. 2.5. Elementary Matrices and Matrix Equivalence. 2.6. Inverse of a Matrix. 2.7. Application: The Simplex Method Revisited. 2.8. Homogeneous/Nonhomogeneous Systems and Rank. 2.9. Determinant. 2.10. Applications of the Determinant. 2.11. Application: Lu Factorization. 3. Vector Spaces. 3.1. Definition and Examples. 3.2. Subspace. 3.3. Linear Independence. 3.4. Span. 3.5. Basis and Dimension. 3.6. Subspaces Associated with a Matrix. 3.7. Application: Dimension Theorems. 4. Linear Transformations. 4.1. Definition and Examples. 4.2. Kernel and Image. 4.3. Matrix Representation. 4.4. Inverse and Isomorphism. 4.5. Similarity of Matrices. 4.6. Eigenvalues and Diagonalization. 4.7. Axiomatic Determinant. 4.8. Quotient Vector Space. 4.9. Dual Vector Space. 5. Inner Product Spaces. 5.1. Definition, Examples and Properties. 5.2. Orthogonal and Orthonormal. 5.3. Orthogonal Matrices. 5.4. Application: QR Factorization. 5.5. Schur Triangularization Theorem. 5.6. Orthogonal Projections and Best Approximation. 5.7. Real Symmetric Matrices. 5.8. Singular Value Decomposition. 5.9. Application: Least Squares Optimization. 6. Applications in Data Analytics. 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. Direction of Maximal Spread. 6.3. Principal Component Analysis. 6.4. Dimensionality Reduction. 6.5. Mahalanobis Distance. 6.6. Data Sphering. 6.7. Fisher Linear Discriminant Function. 6.8. Linear Discriminant Functions in Feature Space. 6.9. Minimal Square Error Linear Discriminant Function. 7. Quadratic Forms. 7.1. Introduction to Quadratic Forms. 7.2. Principal Minor Criterion. 7.3. Eigenvalue Criterion. 7.4. Application: Unconstrained Nonlinear Optimization. 7.5. General Quadratic Forms. Appendix A. Regular Matrices. Appendix B. Rotations and Reflections in Two Dimensions. Appendix C. Answers to Selected Exercises.