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Spring 2003A

Lecture Notes

Linear Algebra Notes full notes (436KB)
 
Title Page and Contents
Linear Systems
Systems of Linear Equations
Gauss-Jordan Elimination
Examples, in text format
The Z_p Fields
Systems of Linear Equations in Z_p
Matrix Algebra
Matrix Arithmetic
Elementary Matrices
Matrix Inverse
Method for Finding the Inverse
Diagonal, Triangular and Symmetric Matrices
Determinant
The Determinant Function
Calculating the Determinant for 2-by-2 Matrices
Geometric Meaning of the Determinant
Properties of the Determinant Function
Evaluating the Determinant by Row Reduction
Determinant, Invertibility and Systems of Linear Equations
Cofactor Expansion, Adjoint Matrix
Calculating the Determinant for 3-by-3 Matrices
Block-Triangular Matrices
Vector Spaces
Introduction to the Euclidean n-space
Linear Transformation from R^n to R^m
Real Vector Spaces
Subspaces
Spanning
Linear Independence
Basis and Dimension
Column Space, Row Space, Null Space, Rank and Nullity
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
Examples
Diagonalization
Computing Powers of a Matrix
General Linear Transformations
Linear Transformations
General Linear Transformations
Matrix Representations of Linear Transformations
Kernel and Range of Linear Transformations
Supplementary Material
Cayley-Hamilton Theorem
Exponential of Matrices
Laplace Expansion for Determinant
First Minors and Cofactors
Alien Cofactors
Cramer's Formula
Appendix C
Rules of Matrix Arithmetic
Equivalent Statements
Index