Schaum’s Outline of Linear Algebra, 4th Edition

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Vectors in R[sup(n)] and C[sup(n)], Spatial Vectors
Chapter 2 Algebra of Matrices
Chapter 3 Systems of Linear Equations
Chapter 4 Vector Spaces
Chapter 5 Linear Mappings
Chapter 6 Linear Mappings and Matrices
Chapter 7 Inner Product Spaces, Orthogonality
Chapter 8 Determinants
Chapter 9 Diagonalization: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
Chapter 10 Canonical Forms
Chapter 11 Linear Functionals and the Dual Space
Chapter 12 Bilinear, Quadratic, and Hermitian Forms
Chapter 13 Linear Operators on Inner Product Spaces

Appendix A: Multilinear Products
Appendix B: Algebraic Structures
Appendix C: Polynomials over a Field
Appendix D: Odds and Ends