a first course in linear algebra - robert a. beezer

A First Course in Linear Algebra
by
Robert A. Beezer
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Puget Sound
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This textbo ok is designed to teach the university mathematics student the basics of
the subject of linear algebra. There are no prerequisites other than ordinary algebra,
but it is probably best used by a student who has the “mathematical maturity” of a
sophomore or junior.
The text has two goals: to teach the fundamental concepts and techniques of matrix
algebra and abstract vector spaces, and to teach the techniques associated with under-
standing the definitions and theorems forming a coherent area of mathematics. So there
is an emphasis on worked examples of nontrivial size and on proving theorems carefully.
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Notice that initially most people are struck by the notion that this book is free (the
French would say gratis, at no cost). And it is. However, it is more important that the
book has freedom (the French would say libert´e, liberty). It will never go “out of print”
nor will there ever be trivial updates designed only to frustrate the used book market.
Those considering teaching a course with this book can examine it thoroughly in advance.
Adding new exercises or new sections has been purposely made very easy, and the hope
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for the benefit of all.
Depending on how you received your copy, you may want to check for the latest
version (and other news) at />Topics The first half of this text (through Chapter M [219]) is basically a course in
matrix algebra, though the foundation of some more advanced ideas is also being formed
in these early sections. Vectors are presented exclusively as column vectors (since we also
have the typographic freedom to avoid writing a column vector inline as the transpose of
a row vector), and linear combinations are presented very early. Spans, null spaces and
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column spaces are also presented early, simply as sets, saving most of their vector space
properties for later, so they are familiar objects before being scrutinized carefully.
You cannot do everything early, so in particular matrix multiplication comes later
than usual. However, with a definition built on linear combinations of column vectors,
it should seem more natural than the usual definition using dot products of rows with
columns. And this delay emphasizes that linear algebra is built upon vector addition and

scalar multiplication. Of course, matrix inverses must wait for matrix multiplication, but
this does not prevent nonsingular matrices from occurring sooner. Vector space properties
are hinted at when vector and matrix operations are first define d, but the notion of a
vector space is saved for a more axiomatic treatment later. Once bases and dimension
have been explored in the context of vector spaces, linear transformations and their
matrix representations follow. The goal of the book is to go as far as canonical forms
and matrix decompositions in the Core, with less central topics collected in a section of
Topics.
Linear algebra is an ideal subject for the novice mathematics student to learn how
to develop a topic precisely, with all the rigor mathematics requires. Unfortunately,
much of this rigor seems to have escaped the standard calculus curriculum, so for many
university students this is their first exp osure to careful definitions and theorems, and
the expectation that they fully understand them, to say nothing of the expectation that
they become proficient in formulating their own proofs. We have tried to make this text
as helpful as possible with this transition. Every definition is stated carefully, set apart
from the text. Likewise, every theorem is carefully stated, and almost every one has a
complete proof. Theorems usually have just one conclusion, so they can be referenced
precisely later. Definitions and theorems are cataloged in order of their appearance in
the front of the book, and alphabetical order in the index at the back. Along the way,
there are discussions of some more important ideas relating to formulating proofs (Proof
Techniques), which is advice mostly.
Origin and History This book is the result of the confluence of several related events
and trends.
• At the University of Puget Sound we teach a one-semester, post-calculus linear
algebra course to students majoring in mathematics, computer science, physics,
chemistry and economics. Between January 1986 and June 2002, I taught this
course seventeen times. For the Spring 2003 semester, I elected to convert my
course notes to an ele ctronic form so that it would be easier to incorporate the
inevitable and nearly-constant revisions. Central to my new notes was a collection
of stock examples that would be used repeatedly to illustrate new concepts. (These

would become the Archetypes, Chapter A [685].) It was only a short leap to then
decide to distribute c opies of these notes and examples to the students in the two
sections of this course. As the semester wore on, the notes began to look less like
notes and more like a textbook.
• I used the notes again in the Fall 2003 semester for a single section of the course.
Simultaneously, the textbook I was using came out in a fifth edition. A new chapter
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was added toward the start of the book, and a few additional exercises were added
in other chapters. This demanded the annoyance of reworking my notes and list
of suggested exercises to conform with the changed numbering of the chapters and
exercises. I had an almost identical experience with the third course I was teaching
that semester. I also learned that in the next academic year I would be teaching
a course where my textbook of choice had gone out of print. I felt there had to
be a better alternative to having the organization of my courses buffeted by the
economics of traditional textbook publishing.
• I had used T
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way of typesetting, distributing and “marketing” a free book. With recreational
and professional interests in software development, I had long been fascinated by the
open-source software movement, as exemplified by the success of GNU and Linux,
though public-domain T
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attempt to carry over that model of creative endeavor to textbook publishing.
• As a sabbatical project during the Spring 2004 semester, I embarked on the current
project of creating a freely-distributable linear algebra textbook. (Notice the im-
plied financial support of the University of Puget Sound to this project.) Most of
the material was written from scratch since changes in notation and approach made

much of my notes of little use. By August 2004 I had written half the material
necessary for our Math 232 course. The remaining half was written during the Fall
2004 semester as I taught another two sections of Math 232.
• I taught a single section of the course in the Spring 2005 semester, while my col-
league, Professor Martin Jackson, graciously taught another section from the con-
stantly shifting sands that was this project (version 0.30). His many suggestions
have helped immeasurably. For the Fall 2005 semester, I taught two sections of the
course from version 0.50.
However, much of my motivation for writing this book is captured by the sentiments
expressed by H.M. Cundy and A.P. Rollet in their Preface to the First Edition of Math-
ematical Models (1952), especially the final sentence,
This book was born in the classroom, and arose from the spontaneous interest
of a Mathematical Sixth in the construction of simple models. A desire to
show that even in mathematics one could have fun led to an exhibition of
the results and attracted considerable attention throughout the school. Since
then the Sherborne collection has grown, ideas have come from many sources,
and widespread interest has been shown. It seems therefore desirable to give
permanent form to the lessons of experience so that others can benefit by
them and be encouraged to undertake similar work.
How To Use This Book Chapters, Theorems, etc. are not numbered in this book,
but are instead referenced by acronyms. This means that Theorem XYZ will always be
Theorem XYZ, no matter if new sections are added, or if an individual decides to remove
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certain other sections. Within sections, the subsections are acronyms that begin with the
acronym of the section. So Subsection XYZ.AB is the subsection AB in Section XYZ.
Acronyms are unique within their type, so for example there is just one Definition B, but
there is also a Section B. At first, all the letters flying around may be confusing, but with
time, you will begin to recognize the more important ones on sight. Furthermore, there
are lists of theorems, examples, etc. in the front of the bo ok, and an index that contains

every acronym. If you are reading this in an electronic version (PDF or XML), you will
see that all of the cross-references are hyperlinks, allowing you to click to a definition
or example, and then use the back button to return. In printed versions, you must rely
on the page numbers. However, note that page numbers are not permanent! Different
editions, different margins, or different sized paper will affect what content is on each
page. And in time, the addition of new material will affect the page numbering.
Chapter divisions are not critical to the organization of the book, as Sections are
the main organizational unit. Sections are designed to be the subject of a single lecture
or classroom session, though there is frequently more material than can be discussed
and illustrated in a fifty-minute session. Consequently, the instructor will need to be
selective about which topics to illustrate with other examples and which topics to leave
to the student’s reading. Many of the examples are meant to be large, such as using five
or six variables in a system of equations, so the instructor may just want to “walk” a
class through these examples. The book has been written with the idea that some may
work through it independently, so the hope is that students can learn some of the more
mechanical ideas on their own.
The highest level division of the book is the three Parts: Core, Topics, Applications.
The Core is meant to carefully describe the basic ideas required of a first exposure to linear
algebra. In the final sections of the Core, one should ask the question: which previous
Sections could be removed without destroying the logical development of the subject?
Hopefully, the answer is “none.” The goal of the book is to finish the Core with the most
general representations of linear transformations (Jordan and rational canonical forms)
and perhaps matrix decompositions (LU, QR, singular value). Of course, there will not
be universal agreement on what should, or should not, constitute the Core, but the main
idea will be to limit it to about forty sections. Topics is meant to contain those s ubjects
that are important in linear algebra, and which would make profitable detours from the
Core for those interested in pursuing them. Applications should illustrate the power and
widespread applicability of linear algebra to as many fields as possible. The Archetypes
(Chapter A [685]) cover many of the computational aspects of systems of linear equations,
matrices and linear transformations. The student should consult them often, and this is

encouraged by exercises that simply suggest the right properties to examine at the right
time. But what is more important, they are a repository that contains enough variety
to provide abundant examples of key theorems, while also providing counterexamples to
hypotheses or converses of theorems.
I require my students to read each Section prior to the day’s discussion on that section.
For some students this is a novel idea, but at the end of the semester a few always report
on the benefits, both for this course and other courses where they have adopted the
habit. To make good on this requirement, each section contains three Reading Questions.
These sometimes only require parroting back a key definition or theorem, or they require
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performing a small example of a key computation, or they ask for musings on key ideas
or new relationships between old ideas. Answers are emailed to me the evening before
the le cture. Given the flavor and purpose of these questions, including solutions seems
foolish.
Formulating interesting and effective exercises is as difficult, or more so, than building
a narrative. But it is the place where a student really learns the material. As such, for
the student’s benefit, complete solutions should be given. As the list of exercises expands,
over time solutions will also be provided. Exercises and their solutions are referenced with
a section name, followed by a dot, then a letter (C,M, or T) and a number. The letter ‘C’
indicates a problem that is mostly computational in nature, while the letter ‘T’ indicates
a problem that is more theoretical in nature. A problem with a letter ‘M’ is somewhere
in between (middle, mid-level, median, middling), probably a mix of computation and
applications of theorems. So Solution MO.T34 is a solution to an exercise in Section MO
that is theoretical in nature. The numb er ‘34’ has no intrinsic meaning.
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Conclusion Foremost, I hope that students find their time spent with this book prof-
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Preface i
Contents vii
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Proof Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Computation Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
GNU Free Documentation License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
2. VERBATIM COPYING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
3. COPYING IN QUANTITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
4. MODIFICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii
7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS . . . . . . . . . . xxviii

8. TRANSLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii
9. TERMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
10. FUT URE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
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Part C Core 3
Chapter SLE Systems of Linear Equations 3
WILA What is Linear Algebra? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
LA “Linear” + “Algebra” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
A An application: packaging trail mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SSLE Solving Systems of Linear Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
PSS Possibilities for solution sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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ESEO Equivalent systems and equation operations . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
RREF Reduced Row-Echelon Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
TSS Types of Solution Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
HSE Homogeneous Systems of Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SHS Solutions of Homogeneous Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

MVNSE Matrix and Vector Notation for Systems of Equations . . . . . . 74
NSM Null Space of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
NSM NonSingular Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
NSM NonSingular Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Chapter V Vectors 99
VO Vector Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
VEASM Vector equality, addition, scalar multiplication . . . . . . . . . . 100
VSP Vector Space Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
LC Linear Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
LC Linear Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
VFSS Vector Form of Solution Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
PSHS Particular Solutions, Homogeneous Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
URREF Uniqueness of Reduced Row-Echelon Form . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
SS Spanning Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
SSV Span of a Set of Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
SSNS Spanning Sets of Null Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

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SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
LI Linear Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
LISV Linearly Independent Sets of Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
LINSM Linear Independence and NonSingular Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 171
NSSLI Null Spaces, Spans, Linear Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
LDS Linear Dependence and Spans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
LDSS Linearly Dependent Sets and Spans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
COV Casting Out Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
O Orthogonality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
CAV Complex arithmetic and vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
IP Inner products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
N Norm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
OV Orthogonal Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
GSP Gram-Schmidt Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Chapter M Matrices 219
MO Matrix Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
MEASM Matrix equality, addition, scalar multiplication . . . . . . . . . 219
VSP Vector Space Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
TSM Transposes and Symmetric Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
MCC Matrices and Complex Conjugation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
MM Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
MVP Matrix-Vector Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
MM Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
MMEE Matrix Multiplication, Entry-by-Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
PMM Properties of Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
MISLE Matrix Inverses and Systems of Linear Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
IM Inverse of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
CIM Computing the Inverse of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
PMI Properties of Matrix Inverses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
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SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
MINSM Matrix Inverses and NonSingular Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
NSMI NonSingular Matrices are Invertible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
OM Orthogonal Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
CRS Column and Row Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
CSSE Column spaces and systems of equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
CSSOC Column space spanned by original columns . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
CSNSM Column Space of a Nonsingular Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

RSM Row Space of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
FS Four Subsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
LNS Left Null Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
CRS Computing Column Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
EEF Extended echelon form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
FS Four Subsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Chapter VS Vector Spaces 333
VS Vector Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
VS Vector Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
EVS Examples of Vector Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
VSP Vector Space Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
RD Recycling Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
S Subspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
TS Testing Subspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
TSS The Span of a Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
SC Subspace Constructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
B Bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
LI Linear independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
SS Spanning Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

B Bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
BRS Bases from Row Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
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BNSM Bases and NonSingular Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
VR Vector Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
D Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
D Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
DVS Dimension of Vector Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
RNM Rank and Nullity of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
RNNSM Rank and Nullity of a NonSingular Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
PD Properties of Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
GT Goldilocks’ Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
RT Ranks and Transposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
OBC Orthonormal Bases and Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Chapter D Determinants 427
DM Determinants of Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
CD Computing Determinants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
PD Properties of Determinants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Chapter E Eigenvalues 439
EE Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
EEM Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
PM Polynomials and Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
EEE Existence of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
CEE Computing Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
ECEE Examples of Computing Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors . . . . . . . 451
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
PEE Properties of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
ME Multiplicities of Eigenvalues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
EHM Eigenvalues of Hermitian Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
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SD Similarity and Diagonalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
SM Similar Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
PSM Properties of Similar Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
D Diagonalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
OD Orthonormal Diagonalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Chapter LT Linear Transformations 507
LT Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
LT Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

MLT Matrices and Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
LTLC Linear Transformations and Linear Combinations . . . . . . . . . 517
PI Pre-Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
NLTFO New Linear Transformations From Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
ILT Injective Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
EILT Examples of Injective Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
KLT Kernel of a Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
ILTLI Injective Linear Transformations and Linear Independence . . . . 544
ILTD Injective Linear Transformations and Dimension . . . . . . . . . . 545
CILT Composition of Injective Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . 546
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
SLT Surjective Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
ESLT Examples of Surjective Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . 553
RLT Range of a Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
SSSLT Spanning Sets and Surjective Linear Transformations . . . . . . . 563
SLTD Surjective Linear Transformations and Dimension . . . . . . . . . 565
CSLT Composition of Surjective Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . 566
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
IVLT Invertible Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
IVLT Invertible Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
IV Invertibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
SI Structure and Isomorphism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
RNLT Rank and Nullity of a Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

SLELT Systems of Linear Equations and Linear Transformations . . . . . 585
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
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SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
Chapter R Representations 595
VR Vector Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
CVS Characterization of Vector Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602
CP Coordinatization Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
MR Matrix Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
NRFO New Representations from Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620
PMR Properties of Matrix Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626
IVLT Invertible Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
CB Change of Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
EELT Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of Linear Transformations . . . . . . 651
CBM Change-of-Basis Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
MRS Matrix Representations and Similarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
CELT Computing Eigenvectors of Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . 667
READ Reading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
EXC Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
SOL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
Chapter A Archetypes 685
A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699
D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703
E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707
F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711
G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717
H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726
J . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731
K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736
L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741
M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745
N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748
O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751
P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754
Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756
R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760
S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763
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T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763
U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763
V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764
W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764
Part T Topics 767
Chapter P Preliminaries 767
CNO Complex Number Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767
CNA Arithmetic with complex numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767
CCN Conjugates of Complex Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768
MCN Modulus of a Complex Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

Part A Applications 773
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Section WILA
Section SSLE
SLE System of Linear Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
ES Equivalent Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
EO Equation Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section RREF
M Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
AM Augmented Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
RO Row Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
REM Row-Equivalent Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
RREF Reduced Row-Echelon Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
ZRM Zero Row of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
LO Leading Ones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
PC Pivot Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
RR Row-Reducing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Section TSS
CS Consistent System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
IDV Independent and Dependent Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Section HSE
HS Homogeneous System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
TSHSE Trivial Solution to Homogeneous Systems of Equations . . . . . . . . 72
CV Column Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
ZV Zero Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
CM Coefficient Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
VOC Vector of Constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SV Solution Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
NSM Null Space of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Section NSM
SQM Square Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
NM Nonsingular Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
IM Identity Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Section VO
VSCV Vector Space of Column Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
CVE Column Vector Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
CVA Column Vector Addition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
CVSM Column Vector Scalar Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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Section LC
LCCV Linear Combination of Column Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Section SS
SSCV Span of a Set of Column Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Section LI
RLDCV Relation of Linear Dependence for Column Vectors . . . . . . . . . . 165
LICV Linear Independence of Column Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Section LDS
Section O
CCCV Complex Conjugate of a Column Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
IP Inner Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
NV Norm of a Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
OV Orthogonal Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
OSV Orthogonal Set of Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
ONS OrthoNormal Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Section MO
VSM Vector Space of m ×n Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
ME Matrix Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
MA Matrix Addition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

MSM Matrix Scalar Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
ZM Zero Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
TM Transpose of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
SYM Symmetric Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
CCM Complex Conjugate of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Section MM
MVP Matrix-Vector Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
MM Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Section MISLE
MI Matrix Inverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
SUV Standard Unit Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Section MINSM
OM Orthogonal Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
A Adjoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
HM Hermitian Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Section CRS
CSM Column Space of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
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Section FS
LNS Left Null Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
EEF Extended Echelon Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Section VS
VS Vector Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Section S
S Subspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
TS Trivial Subspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
LC Linear Combination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
SS Span of a Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Section B
RLD Relation of Linear Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
LI Linear Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
TSVS To Span a Vector Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
B Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Section D
D Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
NOM Nullity Of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
ROM Rank Of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Section PD
Section DM
SM SubMatrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
DM Determinant of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
MIM Minor In a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
CIM Cofactor In a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Section EE
EEM Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
CP Characteristic Polynomial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
EM Eigenspace of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
AME Algebraic Multiplicity of an Eigenvalue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
GME Geometric Multiplicity of an Eigenvalue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Section PEE
Section SD
SIM Similar Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
DIM Diagonal Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
DZM Diagonalizable Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
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LT Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

PI Pre-Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
LTA Linear Transformation Addition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
LTSM Linear Transformation Scalar Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
LTC Linear Transformation Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Section ILT
ILT Injective Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
KLT Kernel of a Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
Section SLT
SLT Surjective Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
RLT Range of a Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
Section IVLT
IDLT Identity Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
IVLT Invertible Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
IVS Isomorphic Vector Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580
ROLT Rank Of a Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
NOLT Nullity Of a Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
Section VR
VR Vector Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Section MR
MR Matrix Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
Section CB
EELT Eigenvalue and Eigenvector of a Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . 651
CBM Change-of-Basis Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
Section CNO
CCN Conjugate of a Complex Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768
MCN Modulus of a Complex Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769
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Section SSLE

EOPSS Equation Operations Preserve Solution Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section RREF
2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
REMES Row-Equivalent Matrices represent Equivalent Systems . . . . . . . . 37
REMEF Row-Equivalent Matrix in Echelon Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Section TSS
RCLS Recognizing Consistency of a Linear System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
ICRN Inconsistent Systems, r and n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
CSRN Consistent Systems, r and n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
FVCS Free Variables for Consistent Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
PSSLS Possible Solution Sets for Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
CMVEI Consistent, More Variables than Equations, Infinite solutions . . . . . 63
Section HSE
HSC Homogeneous Systems are Consistent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
HMVEI Homogeneous, More Variables than Equations, Infinite solutions . . . 73
Section NSM
NSRRI NonSingular matrices Row Reduce to the Identity matrix . . . . . . . 87
NSTNS NonSingular matrices have Trivial Null Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
NSMUS NonSingular Matrices and Unique Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
NSME1 NonSingular Matrix Equivalences, Round 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Section VO
VSPCV Vector Space Properties of Column Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Section LC
SLSLC Solutions to Linear Systems are Linear Combinations . . . . . . . . . 115
VFSLS Vector Form of Solutions to Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
PSPHS Particular Solution Plus Homogeneous Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
RREFU Reduced Row-Echelon Form is Unique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Section SS
SSNS Spanning Sets for Null Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Section LI

LIVHS Linearly Independent Vectors and Homogeneous Systems . . . . . . . 168
LIVRN Linearly Independent Vectors, r and n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
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MVSLD More Vectors than Size implies Linear Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . 171
NSLIC NonSingular matrices have Linearly Independent Columns . . . . . . 172
NSME2 NonSingular Matrix Equivalences, Round 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
BNS Basis for Null Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Section LDS
DLDS Dependency in Linearly Dependent Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
BS Basis of a Span . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Section O
CRVA Conjugation Respects Vector Addition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
CRSM Conjugation Respects Vector Scalar Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . 204
IPVA Inner Product and Vector Addition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
IPSM Inner Product and Scalar Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
IPAC Inner Product is Anti-Commutative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
IPN Inner Products and Norms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
PIP Positive Inner Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
OSLI Orthogonal Sets are Linearly Independent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
GSPCV Gram-Schmidt Procedure, Column Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Section MO
VSPM Vector Space Properties of Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
SMS Symmetric Matrices are Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
TMA Transpose and Matrix Addition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
TMSM Transpose and Matrix Scalar Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
TT Transpose of a Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
CRMA Conjugation Respects Matrix Addition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
CRMSM Conjugation Respects Matrix Scalar Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . 226
MCT Matrix Conjugation and Transposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Section MM
SLEMM Systems of Linear Equations as Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . . . 234
EMMVP Equal Matrices and Matrix-Vector Produc ts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
EMP Entries of Matrix Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
MMZM Matrix Multiplication and the Zero Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
MMIM Matrix Multiplication and Identity Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
MMDAA Matrix Multiplication Distributes Across Addition . . . . . . . . . . . 242
MMSMM Matrix Multiplication and Scalar Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . . 243
MMA Matrix Multiplication is Associative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
MMIP Matrix Multiplication and Inner Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
MMCC Matrix Multiplication and Complex Conjugation . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
MMT Matrix Multiplication and Transposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Section MISLE
TTMI Two-by-Two Matrix Inverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
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CINSM Computing the Inverse of a NonSingular Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
MIU Matrix Inverse is Unique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
SS Socks and Shoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
MIMI Matrix Inverse of a Matrix Inverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
MIT Matrix Inverse of a Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
MISM Matrix Inverse of a Scalar Multiple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Section MINSM
PWSMS Product With a Singular Matrix is Singular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
OSIS One-Sided Inverse is Sufficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
NSI NonSingularity is Invertibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
NSME3 NonSingular Matrix Equivalences, Round 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
SNSCM Solution with NonSingular Coefficient Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
OMI Orthogonal Matrices are Invertible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
COMOS Columns of Orthogonal Matrices are Orthonormal Sets . . . . . . . . 273

OMPIP Orthogonal Matrices Preserve Inner Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Section CRS
CSCS Column Spaces and Consistent Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
BCS Basis of the Column Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
CSNSM Column Space of a NonSingular Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
NSME4 NonSingular Matrix Equivalences, Round 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
REMRS Row-Equivalent Matrices have equal Row Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
BRS Basis for the Row Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
CSRST Column Space, Row Space, Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Section FS
PEEF Properties of Extended Echelon Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
FS Four Subsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Section VS
ZVU Zero Vector is Unique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
AIU Additive Inverses are Unique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
ZSSM Zero Scalar in Scalar Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
ZVSM Zero Vector in Scalar Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
AISM Additive Inverses from Scalar Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
SMEZV Scalar Multiplication Equals the Zero Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
VAC Vector Addition Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
CSSM Canceling Scalars in Scalar Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
CVSM Canceling Vectors in Scalar Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Section S
TSS Testing Subsets for Subspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
NSMS Null Space of a Matrix is a Subspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
SSS Span of a Set is a Subspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
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RSMS Row Space of a Matrix is a Subspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

LNSMS Left Null Space of a Matrix is a Subspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Section B
SUVB Standard Unit Vectors are a Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
CNSMB Columns of NonSingular Matrix are a Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
NSME5 NonSingular Matrix Equivalences, Round 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
VRRB Vector Representation Relative to a Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Section D
SSLD Spanning Sets and Linear Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
BIS Bases have Identical Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
DCM Dimension of C
m
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
DP Dimension of P
n
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
DM Dimension of M
mn
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
CRN Computing Rank and Nullity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
RPNC Rank Plus Nullity is Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
RNNSM Rank and Nullity of a NonSingular Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
NSME6 NonSingular Matrix Equivalences, Round 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Section PD
ELIS Extending Linearly Independent Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
G Goldilocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
EDYES Equal Dimensions Yields Equal Subspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
RMRT Rank of a Matrix is the Rank of the Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
COB Coordinates and Orthonormal Bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Section DM
DMST Determinant of Matrices of Size Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

DERC Determinant Expansion about Rows and Columns . . . . . . . . . . . 430
DT Determinant of the Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
DRMM Determinant Respects Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
SMZD Singular Matrices have Zero Determinants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
NSME7 NonSingular Matrix Equivalences, Round 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Section EE
ESMHE Every Matrix Has an Eigenvalue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
EMRCP Eigenvalues of a Matrix are Roots of Characteristic Polynomials . . . 448
EMS Eigenspace for a Matrix is a Subspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
EMNS Eigenspace of a Matrix is a Null Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
Section PEE
EDELI Eigenvectors with Distinct Eigenvalues are Linearly Independent . . . 469
SMZE Singular Matrices have Zero Eigenvalues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
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NSME8 NonSingular Matrix Equivalences, Round 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
ESMM Eigenvalues of a Scalar Multiple of a M atrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
EOMP Eigenvalues Of Matrix Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
EPM Eigenvalues of the Polynomial of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
EIM Eigenvalues of the Inverse of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
ETM Eigenvalues of the Transpose of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
ERMCP Eigenvalues of Real Matrices come in Conjugate Pairs . . . . . . . . . 475
DCP Degree of the Characteristic Polynomial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
NEM Number of Eigenvalues of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
ME Multiplicities of an Eigenvalue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
MNEM Maximum Number of Eigenvalues of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
HMRE Hermitian Matrices have Real Eigenvalues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
HMOE Hermitian Matrices have Orthogonal Eigenvectors . . . . . . . . . . . 480
Section SD
SER Similarity is an Equivalence Relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

SMEE Similar Matrices have Equal Eigenvalues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
DC Diagonalization Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
DMLE Diagonalizable Matrices have Large Eigenspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
DED Distinct Eigenvalues implies Diagonalizable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Section LT
LTTZZ Linear Transformations Take Zero to Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
MBLT Matrices Build Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
MLTCV Matrix of a Linear Transformation, Column Vectors . . . . . . . . . . 515
LTLC Linear Transformations and Linear Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . 517
LTDB Linear Transformation Defined on a Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
SLTLT Sum of Linear Transformations is a Linear Transformation . . . . . . 523
MLTLT Multiple of a Linear Transformation is a Linear Transformation . . . 524
VSLT Vector Space of Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
CLTLT Composition of Linear Transformations is a Linear Transformation . . 526
Section ILT
KLTS Kernel of a Linear Transformation is a Subspace . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
KPI Kernel and Pre-Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
KILT Kernel of an Injective Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
ILTLI Injective Linear Transformations and Linear Independence . . . . . . 544
ILTB Injective Linear Transformations and Bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
ILTD Injective Linear Transformations and Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
CILTI Composition of Injective Linear Transformations is Injective . . . . . 546
Section SLT
RLTS Range of a Linear Transformation is a Subspace . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
RSLT Range of a Surjective Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
SSRLT Spanning Set for Range of a Linear Transformation . . . . . . . . . . 563
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