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Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction - Hardcover

Poole, David

 
9780534341749: Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction

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In this innovative new Linear Algebra text, award-winning educator David Poole covers vectors and vector geometry first to enable students to visualize the mathematics while they are doing matrix operations. Rather than merely doing the calculations with no understanding of the mathematics, students will be able to visualize and understand the meaning of the calculations. By seeing the mathematics and understanding the underlying geometry, students will develop mathematical maturity and learn to think abstractly.

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Designed for either a one- or two-semester course, this college-level introductory algebra textbook covers vectors, linear equations, matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, orthogonality, vector spaces, and distance and approximation. Appendices discuss mathematical notation and methods of proof, mathematical induction, complex numbers, polynomial

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