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Linear Algebra, 5th Edition
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Linear Algebra, 5th Edition

by Stephen H. Friedberg, Arnold J. Insel, Lawrence E. Spence
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
16h 3m
English
Pearson
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5.2 Diagonalizability

In Section 5.1, we presented the diagonalization problem and observed that not all linear operators or matrices are diagonalizable. Although we are able to diagonalize operators and matrices and even obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for diagonalizability (Theorem 5.1 p. 247), we have not yet solved the diagonalization problem. What is still needed is a simple test to determine whether an operator or a matrix can be diagonalized, as well as a method for actually finding a basis of eigenvectors. In this section, we develop such a test and method.

In Example 6 of Section 5.1, we obtained a basis of eigenvectors by choosing one eigenvector corresponding to each eigenvalue. In general, such a procedure does not yield ...

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