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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Vector Spaces, Bases, Linear Maps
Chapter 3 Matrices and Linear Maps
Chapter 4 Direct Sums, The Dual Space, Duality
Chapter 5 Determinants
Chapter 6 Gaussian Elimination,LU-Factorization, Cholesky Factorization, Reduced Row Echelon Form
Chapter 7 Vector Norms and Matrix Norms
Chapter 8 Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues
Chapter 9 Iterative Methods for Solving Linear Systems
Chapter 10 Euclidean Spaces
Chapter 11 QR-Decomposition for Arbitrary Matrices
Chapter 12 Basics of Affine Geometry
Chapter 13 Embedding an Affine Space in a Vector Space
Chapter 14 Basics of Projective Geometry
Chapter 15 The Cartan{Dieudonn´e Theorem
Chapter 16 Hermitian Spaces
Chapter 17 Isometries of Hermitian Spaces
Chapter 18 Spectral Theorems in Euclidean and Hermitian Spaces
Chapter 19 Variational Approximation of Boundary-Value Problems;Introduction to the Finite Elements Method
Chapter 20 Singular Value Decomposition and Polar Form
Chapter 21 Applications of SVD and Pseudo-Inverses
Chapter 22 The Geometry of Bilinear Forms;Witt’s Theorem; The Cartan{Dieudonn´e Theorem
Chapter 23 Polynomials, Ideals and PID’s
Chapter 24 Annihilating Polynomials and the Primary Decomposition
Chapter 25 UFD’s, Noetherian Rings, Hilbert’s Basis Theorem
Chapter 26 Tensor Algebras and Symmetric Algebras
Chapter 27 Exterior Tensor Powers and Exterior Algebras
Chapter 28 Introduction to Modules; Modules over a PID
Chapter 29 The Rational Canonical Form and Other Normal Forms
Chapter 30 Topology
Chapter 31 A Detour On Fractals
Chapter 32 Differential Calculus
Chapter 33 Quadratic Optimization Problems
Chapter 34 Schur Complements and Applications
Chapter 35 Convex Sets, Cones, H-Polyhedra
Chapter 36 Linear Programs
Chapter 37 The Simplex Algorithm
Chapter 38 Linear Programming and Duality
Chapter 39 Extrema of Real-Valued Functions
Chapter 40 Newton’s Method and Its Generalizations
Chapter 41 Basics of Hilbert Spaces
Chapter 42 General Results of Optimization Theory
Chapter 43 Introduction to Nonlinear Optimization
Chapter 44 Soft Margin Support Vector Machines
Chapter 45 Total Orthogonal Families in Hilbert Spaces
Chapter 46 Appendix: Zorn’s Lemma; Some Applications
Bibliography