| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 348 pages) : illustrations |
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Companion volume to Fundamental concepts of mathematics and Polynomials and equations. |
| Summary |
This book is the last volume of a three-book series written for Sixth Form students and first-year undergraduates. It introduces the important concepts of finite-dimensional vector spaces through the careful study of Euclidean geometry. In turn, methods of linear algebra are then used in the study of coordinate transformations through which a complete classification of conic sections and quadric surfaces is obtained. The book concludes with a detailed treatment of linear equations in n variables in the language of vectors and matrices. Illustrative examples are included in the main text and numerous exercises are given in each section. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Preface; Ch. 1. Vectors and geometry in the plane; Ch. 2 Vectors and geometry in space; Ch. 3 Conic sections; Ch. 4 Quadric surfaces; Ch. 5 Higher dimensional vector spaces; Ch. 6 Matrix and determinant; Ch. 7 Linear equations; Numerical answers to exercises; Index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Vector analysis.
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Matrices.
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Geometry, Analytic.
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Mathematics.
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MATHEMATICS -- Geometry -- General.
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MATHEMATICS -- General.
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Geometry, Analytic. (OCoLC)fst00940905
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Matrices. (OCoLC)fst01012399
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Vector analysis. (OCoLC)fst01164651
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Suen, S. N. (Suk-Nam)
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Leung, Kam-tim.
Fundamental concepts of mathematics.
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Leung, Kam-tim.
Polynomials and equations.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leung, Kam-tim. Vectors, matrices and geometry. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 1994 9622093604 (OCoLC)35127784 |
| ISBN |
9789882203037 (electronic bk.) |
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9882203035 (electronic bk.) |
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