TY - GEN AU - Sahai, Vivek AU - Bist, Vikas TI - Linear algebra SN - 1842650807 AV - QA184 .S343 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Pangbourne, [Eng.] PB - Alpha Science International KW - Algebra KW - Study and teaching KW - Algebras, Linear KW - Problems, exercises, etc N1 - Includes bibliography (p. 187) and index; ch. 1; ch. 2; ch. 3; ch. 4; ch. 5; Preliminaries --; Vector spaces --; Canonical forms --; Inner product spaces --; Bilinear forms N2 - Beginning with the basic concepts of vector spaces such as linear independence, basis and dimension, quotient space, linear transformation and duality with an exposition of the theory of linear operators on a finite dimensional vector space, this book includes the concepts of eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization, triangulation and Jordan and rational canonical forms. Inner product spaces which cover finite dimensional spectral theory, and an elementary theory of bilinear forms are also discussed ER -