Turnbull H.W., Aitken A.C. An Introduction to the Theory of Canonical Matrices

Blackie & Son, 1945. - 192 Pages.This book has been written with the object of giving an account of the various ways in which matrices of finite order can be reduced to canonical form under different important types of transformation. While the work has been planned to serve as a sequel to a former publication, The Theory of Determinants, Matrices, and Invariants (1928), circumstances have allowed us to make it practically independent and self-contained, with the least possible overlapping of material in the two books. A certain knowledge of the elementary theory of determinants is presupposed, but no previous acquaintance with matrices.