Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry for Physical Sciences

Abstract

This book originates from a collection of lecture notes that the first author prepared at the University of Trieste with Michela Brundu, over a span of fifteen years, together with the more recent one written by the second author. The notes were meant for undergraduate classes on linear algebra, geometry and more generally basic mathematical physics delivered to physics and engineering students, as well as mathematics students in Italy, Germany and Luxembourg. The book is mainly intended to be a self-contained introduction to the theory of finite-dimensional vector spaces and linear transformations (matrices) with their spectral analysis both on Euclidean and Hermitian spaces, to affine Euclidean geometry as well as to quadratic forms and conic sections.