PREFACE/6

CONTENTS/8
I. SPACES/10
1. Fields/10
2. Vector spaces/12
3. Examples/13
4. Comments/14
5. Linear dependence/16
6. Linear combinations/18
7. Bases/19
8. Dimension/22
9. Isomorphism/149
10. Subspaces/25
11. Calculus of subspaces/26
12. Dimension of a subspace/27
13. Dualspaces/29
14. Brackets/30
15. Dual bases/32
16.Refiexivity/33
17. Annihilators/35
18. Direct sums/37
19. Dimension of a direct sum/39
20. Dual of a direct sum/40
21. Quotient spaces/42
22. Dimension of a quotient space/43
23. Bilinear forms/44
24. Tensor products/47
25. Product bases/49
26. Permutations/50
27. Cycles/53
28. Parity/55
29. Multilinear forms/57
30. Alternating forms/59
31. Alternating forms of maximal degree/61
II. TRANSFORMATIONS/64
32. Linear transformations/64
33. Transformations as vectors/65
34. Products/67
35. Polynomials/68
36. Inverses/70
37. Matrices/73
38. Matrices of transformations/76
39. Invariance/80
40. Reducibility/81
41. Projections/82
42. Combinations of projections/83
43. Projections and invariance/85
44. Adjoints/87
45. Adjoints of projections/89
46. Change of basis/91
47. Similarity/93
48. Quotient transformations/96
49. Range and nullspace/97
50. Rank and nullity/99
51. Transformations of rank one/101
52. Tensor products of transformations/104
53. Determinants/107
54. Proper values/111
55. Multiplicity/113
 56. Triangular form/115
57. Nilpotence/118
58. Jordan form/121
III. ORTHOGONALITY/127
59. Inner products/127
60. Complex inner products/129
61. Inner product spaces/130
62. Orthogonality/131
63. Completeness/133
64. Schwarz's inequality/134
65. Complete orthonormal sets/136
66. Projection theorem/138
67. Linear functionals/139
68. Parentheses versus brackets/140
69. Natural isomorphisms/142
70. Self-adjoint transformations/144
71. Polarization/147
72. Positive transformations/148
73. Isometries/151
74. Change of orthonormal basis/153
75. Perpendicular projections/155
76. Combinations of perpendicuIar projections/157
77. Complexification/159
78. Characterization of spectra/162
79. Spectral theorem/164
80. Normal transformations/168
81. Orthogonal transformations/171
82. Functions of transformations/174
83. Polar decomposition/178
84. Commutativity/180
85. Self-adjoint transformations of rank one/181
IV. ANALYSIS/184
86. Convergence of vectors/184
87. Norm/185
88. Expressions for the norm/187
89. Bounds of a self-adjoint transformation/188
90. Minimax principle/190
91. Convergence of linear transformations/191
92. Ergodic theorem/193
93. Power series/195
APPENDIX. HILBERT SPACE./198
RECOMMENDED READING/204
INDEX OF TERMS/206
INDEX OF SYMBOLS /209