Linear Algebra II

430/630 LINEAR ALGEBRA II (3+0) 3 credits

   Fall Semester 2006                Eric Olson
   MWF 10:00-10:50AM AB 201          ejolson at unr.edu
   Office hours MW 2pm and F 1pm in AB614

We will cover the first 8 chapters of the text. Topics include complex numbers, bases, dimension, the null space, invariant subspaces, norms, orthonormal bases, normal operators, the spectral theorem, polar and singular-value decompositions, the minimum polynomial and the Jordan form.

Text:

1. Sheldon Axler, Linear Algebra Done Right, Second Edition, Springer-Verlag, 2000.

1. Carl D. Meyer, Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra, SIAM, 2000.