Introduction To Linear Algebra: Computation, Application, and Theory

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Contents
Preface
Chapter 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
		1.4.1. Special Matrix Families
	1.5. MATRIX MULTIPLICATION
Chapter 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/NON-HOMOGENEOUS SYSTEMS AND RANK
	2.9. DETERMINANT
	2.10. APPLICATIONS OF THE DETERMINANT
	2.11. APPLICATION: LU FACTORIZATION
Chapter 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
Chapter 4: Linear Transformations
	4.1. DEFINITION AND EXAMPLES
	4.2. KERNEL AND IMAGE
	4.3. MATRIX REPRESENTATION
	4.4. INVERSE AND ISOMORPHISM
		4.4.1. Background
		4.4.2. Inverse
		4.4.3. Isomorphism
	4.5. SIMILARITY OF MATRICES
	4.6. EIGENVALUES AND DIAGONALIZATION
	4.7. AXIOMATIC DETERMINANT
	4.8. QUOTIENT VECTOR SPACE
		4.8.1. Equivalence Relations
		4.8.2. Introduction to Quotient Spaces
		4.8.3. Applications of Quotient Spaces
	4.9. DUAL VECTOR SPACE
Chapter 5: Inner Product Spaces
	5.1. DEFINITION, EXAMPLES AND PROPERTIES
	5.2. ORTHOGONAL AND ORTHONORMAL
	5.3. ORTHOGONAL MATRICES
		5.3.1. Definition and Results
		5.3.2. Application: Rotations and Reflections
	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
		5.9.1. Overdetermined Systems
		5.9.2. Best Fitting Polynomial
		5.9.3. Linear Regression
		5.9.4. Underdetermined Systems
		5.9.5. Approximating Functions
Chapter 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
Chapter 7: Quadratic Forms
	7.1. INTRODUCTION TO QUADRATIC FORMS
	7.2. PRINCIPAL MINOR CRITERION
	7.3. EIGENVALUE CRITERION
	7.4. APPLICATION: UNCONSTRAINED NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION
	7.5. GENERAL QUADRATIC FORMS
Appendix A: Regular Matrices
Appendix B: Rotations and Reflections in Two Dimensions
Appendix C: Answers to Selected Exercises
References
Index