Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 2nd Edition

Author: College of Science, Hebei Agricultural University
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book is a research outcome of the "Reform Plan for Teaching Content and Curriculum System in Higher Education Towards the 21st Century" by the Ministry of Education. It is a curriculum textbook for the 21st century, revised based on the previous edition. The book takes matrices as the main thread for the entire content, covering main topics such as: matrices and their operations, determinants and the rank of matrices, n-dimensional vector spaces, systems of linear equations, eigenvalue problems of matrices, quadratic forms, linear spaces, and selected case studies in applications. The appendix provides an introduction to MATLAB. This book can be used as a textbook for higher agricultural and forestry universities, as well as for economics and management majors.