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VERY GOOD: The book is in very good condition, showing only a few signs of use and wear. The pages are clean and the binding is tight. It is printed on acid-free paper.
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From the back cover: “Matrix groups touch an enormous spectrum of the mathematical arena. This textbook brings them into the undergraduate curriculum. It makes an excellent one-semester course for students familiar with linear and abstract algebra and prepares them for a graduate course on Lie groups.”
BRIEF CONTENTS
- Why study matrix groups?
- Chapter 1. Matrices
- Chapter 2. All matrix groups are real matrix groups
- Chapter 3. The orthogonal groups
- Chapter 4. The topology of matrix groups
- Chapter 5. Lie algebras
- Chapter 6. Matrix exponentiation
- Chapter 7. Matrix groups are manifolds
- Chapter 8. The Lie bracket
- Chapter 9. Maximal tori
- Bibliography
- Index