Matrix theory. Basic results and techniques (Q5906396)

This book is not an introductory text on linear algebra. It is a comprehensive textbook on matrices for readers with an elementary linear algebra background. Matrices are widely used in a great variety of different areas, and this book is aimed at students and applied mathematicians requiring a sound textbook approach to matrix theory. The chapter headings are: 1. Elementary linear algebra review, 2. Partitioned matrices, 3. Matrix polynomials and canonical forms, 4. Special types of matrices, 5. Unitary matrices and contractions, 6. Positive semidefinite matrices, 7. Hermitian matrices, 8. Normal matrices. Each chapter contains one or more extensive sections of problems. The book covers a great deal of ground and will be very useful as a source of information both for the student and for the practising mathematician, and as a textbook for a second course in linear algebra.