MTH 525, FALL 2006

Brief Notes for Week 9

(very tentative)

Monday, October 23

Assignment 6 is collected.

We begin chapter 6, on elementary forms. This begins a second major part of our course, looking at ways to classify linear transformations by finding just the right basis.
We define characteristic values (= eigenvalues) of a transformation and introduce the concept of diagonalizable.

Do p. 189:

We introduce annihilating polynomials.

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