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Author Strang, Gilbert.

Title Linear algebra and its applications / Gilbert Strang
Edition Third edition
Published San Diego : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Publishers, [1988]
©1988

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 W'PONDS  512.5 Str/Laa 1988  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 505 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Matrices and Gaussian Elimination -- The Geometry of Linear Equations -- An Example of Gaussian Elimination -- Matrix Notation and Matrix Multiplication -- Triangular Factors and Row Exchanges -- Inverses and Transposes -- Special Matrices and Applications -- Vector Spaces -- Vector Spaces and Subspaces -- Solving Ax = 0 and Ax = b -- Linear Independence, Basis, and Dimension -- The Four Fundamental Subspaces -- Graphs and Networks -- Linear Transformations -- Orthogonality -- Orthogonal Vectors and Subspaces -- Cosines and Projections onto Lines -- Projections and Least Squares -- Orthogonal Bases and Gram-Schmidt -- The Fast Fourier Transform -- Determinants -- Properties of the Determinant -- Formulas for the Determinant -- Applications of Determinants -- Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors -- Diagonalization of a Matrix -- Difference Equations and Powers A[superscript k] -- Differential Equations and e[superscript At] -- Complex Matrices -- Similarity Transformations -- Positive Definite Matrices -- Minima, Maxima, and Saddle Points -- Tests for Positive Definiteness -- Singular Value Decomposition -- Minimum Principles -- The Finite Element Method -- Computations with Matrices -- Matrix Norm and Condition Number -- Computation of Eigenvalues -- Iterative Methods for Ax = b -- Linear Programming and Game Theory -- Linear Inequalities -- The Simplex Method -- The Dual Problem -- Network Models -- Game Theory -- Intersection, Sum, and Product of Spaces -- The Jordan Form -- Matrix Factorizations
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: page [472]
Subject Algebraic logic.
Algebras, Linear -- Data processing.
Algebras, Linear.
Matrices.
Matrix logic.
LC no. 87083019
ISBN 0155510053