LINEAR ALGEBRA AN INTRODUCTORY APPROACH CHARLES W. CURTIS PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ALLYN AND BACON, INC BOSTONCONTENTS 1. ‘THE REAL NUMBER SYSTEM. 1 \ SETS, INTEGERS, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF MATHEMATICAL INDUCTION 2. VECTORS, MATRICES, AND LINEAR EQUATIONS 17 4 UNTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON ANALYTIC THE VECTOR SPACE Re b LINEAR DEPENDENCE 1 THR CONCEPTS OF BASIS AND DIMENSION k SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS ». SYSTEMS OF HOMOGENROUS EQUATIONS 3. DETERMINANTS 8r 1}. DEFINITION OF DETERMINANTS i] EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS OF ML THE MULTIPLICATION THEOREM POR DETERMINANTSall CONTENTS 4, POLYNOMIALS AND COMPLEX NUMBERS 86 16, VECTORS AND MATRICES DEFINED OVER AN ARBITRARY FIELD 16 POLYMONIALS M. COMPLEX NUMBERS 5. VECTOR SPACES AND LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS 10 2 Subnet rovrvcuian LINEAR ALGEBRA 6. VECTOR SPACES WITH AN INNER PRODUCT 165 % THE CONCEPT oF syYMMETRY 21 INNER PRODUCTS 2% THE STRUCTURE OF ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORMATIONS ®, PRINCIPAL-AXIS THEOREM. 4%, FINITE SYMMETRY GROUPS IN THREE DIMENSIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY 205 INDEX 207