September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
16h 3m
English
Until now, we have studied linear transformations by examining their ranges and null spaces. In this section, we embark on one of the most useful approaches to the analysis of a linear transformation on a finite-dimensional vector space: the representation of a linear transformation by a matrix. In fact, we develop a one-to-one correspondence between matrices and linear transformations that allows us to utilize properties of one to study properties of the other.
We first need the concept of an ordered basis for a vector space.
Let V be a finite-dimensional vector space. An ordered basis for V is a basis for V endowed with a specific order; that is, an ordered basis for V ...
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