LINEAR ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY A - L
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Giuseppe ZAPPALA'
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: MAT/03 - Geometry
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: MAT/03 - Geometry
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
The goal is to provide the basic notions about linear algebra and geometry of first and second degree.
Detailed Course Content
Cartesian product. Algebraic structures. Groups, rings, fields. Matrices. Vector spaces. Endomorphisms. Diagonalization. Bilinear forms. Scalar products. Hermitian products. Spectral theorem.
Affine spaces. Projective spaces. Linear geometry. Conics. Quadrics.
Textbook Information
1) Salvatore Giuffrida, Alfio Ragusa
Corso di Algebra Lineare
Ed. Il Cigno G. Galilei, Roma 1998
2) Giuseppe Paxia
Lezioni di Geometria
Spazio Libri, Catania 2000