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David Poole's leading edge LINEAR ALGEBRA: a contemporary advent, 4e emphasizes a vectors procedure and higher prepares scholars to make the transition from computational to theoretical arithmetic. Balancing concept and purposes, the ebook is written in a conversational variety and combines a standard presentation with a spotlight on student-centered studying. Theoretical, computational, and utilized subject matters are awarded in a versatile but built-in manner. Stressing geometric knowing ahead of computational ideas, vectors and vector geometry are brought early to aid scholars visualize suggestions and improve mathematical adulthood for summary considering. also, the ebook comprises plentiful functions drawn from a number of disciplines, which toughen the truth that linear algebra is a beneficial instrument for modeling real-life problems.Important realize: Media content material referenced in the product description or the product textual content is probably not on hand within the book model.
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V + u . w Distributivity ( cu) . v = c ( u . v) u · u 2: 0 and u · u = 0 if and only if u = 0 We prove (a) and (c) and leave proof of the remaining properties for the exercises. Proof (a) Applying the definition of dot product to u · v and v · u, we obtain u · v = U 1 V 1 + U z Vz + . + U n V n = V 1 U 1 + Vz U z + . . + Vn U n = v·u · where the middle equality follows from the fact that multiplication of real numbers is commutative. (c) Using the definitions of scalar multiplication and dot product, we have (cu) · v = [ cu 1 , cu 2 , .
R n , ll u + v ii :s ll u ll + ll v ll Section 1 . 2 Length and Angle: The Dot Product � 23 Proof Since both sides of the inequality are nonnegative, showing that the square of the left-hand side is less than or equal to the square of the right-hand side is equiva lent to proving the theorem. 9 2 2 l l ll ll ll ll ::; u + 2 u · v + v ::; ll n ll 2 + 2 ll n ll ll v ll + ll v ll 2 By Cauchy-Schwarz = ( ll n ll + ll v ll ) 2 as required. Distance The distance between two vectors is the direct analogue of the distance between two points on the real number line or two points in the Cartesian plane.
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