Lesson Contents

  • What's a linear space?
  • Linear Spaces: Examples and non-Examples
  • Some facts about linear spaces.
  • Subspaces and Linear Combinations.
  • Introduction: Dependent and Independent Sets.
  • Basic Facts about Dependent and Independent Sets.
  • Bases, Dimension, and Components.
  • Distance and Geometry in Linear Spaces
  • The Cauchy-Schwarz-Buniakovsky Inequality.
  • Orthogonality in Euclidean Spaces.
  • Parseval's Theorem and Pythagoras's Theorem.
  • Orthogonalization/Gram Schmidt
  • Orthogonal Completents S-Perp
  • Projections
  • An Application to Data Analysis
  • Linear Transformations
  • Examples of Linear Transformations
  • Null Space, Range, and Kernel
  • Examples
  • An Important Theorem about Dimensions
  • Algebra of Linear Transformations
  • Inverses
  • One to One, Invertible and Consequences
  • Extending a Linear Transformation - Bases
  • Matrices
  • Examples
  • Diagonalization
  • Algebra of Matrices
  • Relationship between Linear Transformations and Matrices
  • Matrix Multiplication
  • Systems of Linear Equations
  • Computation Techniques
  • Inverting Matrices
  • Basic Computational Facts for 2 and 3 Dimensional Determinants
  • Motivation and Axioms for Determinants
  • Uniqueness
  • Computational Ideas
  • Product Formulae and Inverse Matrices
  • Independence of Vectors -- Block Matrices
  • Expansion Formulae, Minors and Cofactors
  • Existence of Determinants - Another View
  • Transpose
  • Cofactors and Cramer's Rule
  • Eigenvalues
  • Eigenvectors
  • Transformations in the Plane
  • Diagonalizing Matrices
  • The Characteristic Polynomial
  • More Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
  • Change of Basis and Similar Matrices
  • The Inner Product
  • Transformations and the Inner Product
  • Hermitian Matrices and Orthonormal Bases
  • More about Hermitian Matrices
  • Unitary Matrices


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