by Robert Wilson, 8/30/2003
- Vector spaces
- Definition
- Examples -- F, Fn, F[x], F[x,y], {f(x,y) | deg f=n}
- Linear independence
- Spanning
- Bases
- Dimension
- Subspaces
- Sums of subspcaes
- Direct sums
- Quotient spaces
- Linear transformations
- Definition
- Kernel and image
- Isomorphism
- Eigenspaces, eigenvectors, and eigenvalues
- Hom(V,W) is a vector space
- V*=Hom(V,F)
- V* is isomorphic to V if and only if V is finite dimensional.
- End(V)
- GL(V)
- Exact sequences
- Other constructions
- Sums, direct sums, and tensor products
- Bilinear forms
- Symmetric and skew-symmetric forms
- Radical, nondegenerate bilinear forms
- Relation with linear functionals
- Matrices
- of a linear transformation
- of an endomorphism
- of a bilinear form
- Equivalence relations and bilinear forms
- Equivalence
- Similarity
- Contragradience
Toto, are we still in Kansas?



