Vector Spaces and Matrices and other original sources

and other original sources

fulfilling life

who has also supplied a provocative Postscript to the Dover Edition offering insights into the vast popularity of this subject in today's theater

[The book] was intended to serve this purpose

Vector Spaces and Matrices and other original sourcesThis text, designed for courses in linear algebra or for supplementary use by students in such courses, possesses the distinct advantage of approaching the subject simultaneously at two levels: the concrete and the axiomatic. Each new property of a vector space is discussed first at one level, then the other. Thus the student is introduced to the elegance and power of mathematical reasoning on the basis of a set of axioms; the gap is bridged between