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Linear algebra is the study of linear transformations and matrices. It involves manipulating vectors, vector spaces, matrices, and linear transformations using operations like addition, multiplication, and inversion. Linear algebra is central to mathematics and used widely in sciences and engineering for modeling natural phenomena and computing with such models. It allows analyzing networks, population growth, optimization problems, signal processing, statistics, computer graphics, and more.

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Math2056 Lecturenotes Week1

Linear algebra is the study of linear transformations and matrices. It involves manipulating vectors, vector spaces, matrices, and linear transformations using operations like addition, multiplication, and inversion. Linear algebra is central to mathematics and used widely in sciences and engineering for modeling natural phenomena and computing with such models. It allows analyzing networks, population growth, optimization problems, signal processing, statistics, computer graphics, and more.

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What is linear algebra?

Linear algebra is the study of the algebraic properties of linear


transformations (and matrices).
Algebra is concerned with how to manipulate symbolic
combinations of objects, and how to equate one such
combination with another; e.g. how to simplify an expression
such as (x − 3)(x + 5).
In linear algebra we shall manipulate not just scalars, but also
vectors, vector spaces, matrices, and linear transformations.
These manipulations will include familiar operations such as
addition, multiplication, and reciprocal (multiplicative
inverse), but also new operations such as span, dimension,
transpose, determinant, trace, eigenvalue, eigenvector.
WHAT IS LINEAR ALGEBRA?
Linear lagebra is the branch of mathematics
concerning linear equations, linear functions and their
representations through matrices and vector spaces.
It is central to almost all areas of mathematics and is
fundamental in modern presentations of geometry,
including for defining basic objects such
as lines, planes and rotations.
Linear algebra is also used in most sciences and
engineering areas, because it allows modeling many
natural phenomena, and efficiently computing with
such models.
Applications of Linear Algebra
– Graphs and Networks, such as analyzing networks. –
Markov Matrices, Population, and Economics, such as
population growth.
– Linear Programming, the simplex optimization
method.
– Fourier Series: Linear Algebra for functions, used widely
in signal processing.
– Linear Algebra for statistics and probability, such as
least squares for regression.
– Computer Graphics, such as the various translation,
rescaling and rotation of images.
LINEAR EQUATIONS
LINEAR EQUATIONS
R E M A R K : Letters that occur early in the alphabet
are used to represent constants, and letters that
occur late in the alphabet are used to represent
variables.

• Linear equations have no products or roots of


variables and no variables involved in
trigonometric, exponential, or logarithmic
functions. Variables appear only to the first power.
Examples of Linear Equations and Nonlinear Equations
SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS
SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS
SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS
SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS
SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS
SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS
Example
SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS
Solving a System of Linear Equations
Solving a System of Linear Equations
Solving a System of Linear Equations
Solving a System of Linear Equations
Using Elimination to Rewrite a System in
Row-Echelon Form
Definition of a Matrix
Gaussian Elimination

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