Linear Algebra
Jim Hefferon
This book helps students to master the material of a standard US undergraduate
linear algebra course.
The material is standard in that the topics covered are Gaussian reduction,
vector spaces, linear maps, determinants, and eigenvalues and eigenvectors. An-
other standard is book's audience: sophomores or juniors, usually with a back-
ground of at least one semester of calculus. The help that it gives to students
comes from taking a developmental approach|this book's presentation empha-
sizes motivation and naturalness, driven home by a wide variety of examples and
by extensive and careful exercises.
linear algebra course.
The material is standard in that the topics covered are Gaussian reduction,
vector spaces, linear maps, determinants, and eigenvalues and eigenvectors. An-
other standard is book's audience: sophomores or juniors, usually with a back-
ground of at least one semester of calculus. The help that it gives to students
comes from taking a developmental approach|this book's presentation empha-
sizes motivation and naturalness, driven home by a wide variety of examples and
by extensive and careful exercises.
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Year:
2012
Language:
english
Pages:
447
File:
PDF, 2.91 MB
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english, 2012