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Linear Algebra Done Right, Second Edition by Sheldon Jay Axler is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Linear Algebra Done Right, Second Edition about?

This text for a second course in linear algebra, aimed at math majors and graduates, adopts a novel approach by banishing determinants to the end of the book and focusing on understanding the structure of linear operators on vector spaces. The author has taken unusual care to motivate concepts and to simplify proofs. For example, the book presents - without having defined determinants - a clean proof that every linear operator on a finite-dimensional complex vector space has an eigenvalue. The book starts by discussing vector spaces, linear independence, span, basics, and dimension. Students are introduced to inner-product spaces in the first half of the book and shortly thereafter to the finite- dimensional spectral theorem. A variety of interesting exercises in each chapter helps students understand and manipulate the objects of linear algebra. This second edition features new chapters on diagonal matrices, on linear functionals and adjoints, and on the spectral theorem; some sections, such as those on self-adjoint and normal operators, have been entirely rewritten; and hundreds of minor improvements have been made throughout the text.

Who reads Linear Algebra Done Right, Second Edition?

Author

Sheldon Jay Axler

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585499000

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Algebra, Stem

Rating

4.26 / 5 (448 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14