Table Of ContentPREFACE ix TO THE STUDENT xv CHAPTER 1 MATRICES, VECTORS, AND SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS 1 1.1 Matrices and Vectors 1 1.2 Linear Combinations, Matrix--Vector Products, and Special Matrices 11 1.3 Systems of Linear Equations 25 1.4 Gaussian Elimination 39 1.5∗ Applications of Systems of Linear Equations 54 1.6 The Span of a Set of Vectors 64 1.7 Linear Dependence and Linear Independence 73 Chapter 1 Review Exercises Chapter 1 MATLAB Exercises CHAPTER 2 MATRICES AND LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS 90 2.1 Matrix Multiplication 90 2.2∗ Applications of Matrix Multiplication 101 2.3 Invertibility and Elementary Matrices 117 2.4 The Inverse of a Matrix 130 2.5∗ Partitioned Matrices and Block Multiplication 141 2.6∗ The LU Decomposition of a Matrix 147 2.7 Linear Transformations and Matrices 162 2.8 Composition and Invertibility of Linear Transformations 175 Chapter 2 Review Exercises Chapter 2 MATLAB Exercises CHAPTER 3 DETERMINANTS 192 3.1 Cofactor Expansion 192 3.2 Properties of Determinants 204 Chapter 3 Review Exercises Chapter 3 MATLAB Exercises CHAPTER 4 SUBSPACES AND THEIR PROPERTIES 218 4.1 Subspaces 218 4.2 Basis and Dimension 232 4.3 The Dimension of Subspaces Associated with a Matrix 245 4.4 Coordinate Systems 254 4.5 Matrix Representations of Linear Operators 266 Chapter 4 Review Exercises Chapter 4 MATLAB Exercises CHAPTER 5 EIGENVALUES, EIGENVECTORS, AND DIAGONALIZATION 282 5.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors 282 5.2 The Characteristic Polynomial 291 5.3 Diagonalization of Matrices 302 5.4∗ Diagonalization of Linear Operators 314 5.5∗ Applications of Eigenvalues 323 Chapter 5 Review Exercises Chapter 5 MATLAB Exercises CHAPTER 6 ORTHOGONALITY 347 6.1 The Geometry of Vectors 347 6.2 Orthogonal Vectors 360 6.3 Orthogonal Projections 374 6.4 Least-Squares Approximations and Orthogonal Projections 388 6.5 Orthogonal Matrices and Operators 398 6.6 Symmetric Matrices 412 6.7∗ Singular Value Decomposition 425 6.8∗ Principal Component Analysis 443 6.9∗ Rotations of R 3 and Computer Graphics 452 Chapter 6 Review Exercises Chapter 6 MATLAB Exercises CHAPTER 7 VECTOR SPACES 473 7.1 Vector Spaces and Their Subspaces 473 7.2 Linear Transformations 485 7.3 Basis and Dimension 495 7.4 Matrix Representations of Linear Operators 505 7.5 Inner Product Spaces 517 Chapter 7 Review Exercises <p style="MARGIN: 0px" align="left" text-alig
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