Lectures on Linear Algebra

I. n-Dimensional Spaces. Linear and Bilinear Forms 1. n-Dimensional vector spaces 2. Euclidean space 3. Orthogonal basis. Isomorphism of Euclidean spaces 4. Bilinear and quadratic forms 5. Reduction of a quadratic form to a sum of squares 6. Reduction of a quadratic form by means of a triangular transformation 7. The law of inertia 8. Complex n-dimensional space II. Linear Transformations 9. Linear transformations. Operations on linear transformations 10. Invariant subspaces. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a linear transformation 11. The adjoint of a linear transformation 12. Self-adjoint (Hermitian) transformations. Simultaneous reduction of a pair of quadratic forms to a sum of squares 13. Unitary transformations 14. Commutative linear transformations. Normal transformations 15. Decomposition of a linear transformation into a product of a unitary and self-adjoint transformation 16. Linear transformations on a real Euclidean space 17. External properties of eigenvalues III. The Canonical Form of an Arbitrary Linear Transformation 18. The canonical form of a linear transformation 19. Reduction to canonical form 20. Elementary divisors 21. Polynomial matrices IV. Introduction to Tensors 22. The dual space 23. Tensors