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Developed from the author s successful two-volume Calculus text this book presents Linear Algebra without emphasis on abstraction or formalization. To accommodate a variety of backgrounds, the text begins with a review of prerequisites divided into precalculus and calculus prerequisites. It continues to cover vector algebra, analytic geometry, linear spaces, determinants, linear differential equations and more.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Aus dem Inhalt:
Review of Prerequisites; Vector Algebra; Applications of Vector Algebra to Analytic Geometry; Linear Spaces; Linear Transformations and Matrices; Determinants; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; Eigenvalues of Operators Acting on Euclidean Spaces; Calculus Prerequisites; Applications to Linear Differential Equations; Applications to Systems of Differential Equations; The Method of Successive Approximations.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Tom A. Apostol, Emeritus Professor at the California Institute of Technology, is the author of several highly regarded texts on calculus, analysis, and number theory, and is Director of Project MATHEMATICS!, a series of computer-animated mathematics videotapes.
Zusammenfassung
Developed from the author's successful two-volume Calculus text this book presents Linear Algebra without emphasis on abstraction or formalization. To accommodate a variety of backgrounds, the text begins with a review of prerequisites divided into precalculus and calculus prerequisites.
