INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR ALGEBRA AND VECTOR SPACES.

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Solving systems of linear equations by (reduced) row-echelon form and matrix inversion, matrix operations, linear transformations, projections, characterizing invertibility, determinants, bases, change of basis, real n-dimensional space and its geometric structure, subspaces, kernel and image of a linear transformation, application to abstract vector spaces of arbitrary dimension, dot product, orthogonality, Gram-Schmidt process, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, characteristic polynomial, diagonalization, symmetric matrices, and principal-axis theorem. Prerequisite: C or better in MATH 2425 , or student group.