TY - BOOK AU - Ayres, Frank TI - Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Matrices T2 - Schaum's outline series SN - 0070990352 U1 - 512.9434 PY - 1983/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill, KW - Algebra KW - Matrices N1 - 1. Matrices -- 2. Some types of matrices -- 3. Determinant of a square matrix -- 4. Evaluation of determinants -- 5. Equivalence -- 6. The adjoint of a square matrix -- 7. The inverse of a matrix -- 8. Fields -- 9. Linear dependence of vectors and forms -- 10. Linear equations -- 11. Vector spaces -- 12. Linear transformations -- 13. Vectors over the real field -- 14. Vectors over the complex field -- 15. Congruence -- 16. Bilinear forms -- 17. Quadratic forms -- 18. Hermitian forms -- 19. The characteristic equation of a matrix -- 20. Similarity -- 21. Similarity to a diagonal matrix -- 22. Polynomials over a field -- 23. Lambda matrices -- 24. Smith normal form -- 25. The minimum polynomial of a matrix -- 26. Canonical forms under similarity ER -