Spectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics

by C. Canuto (Editor)

-Preface for the Instructor-Preface for the Student-Acknowledgments-1. Vector Spaces- 2. Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces- 3. Linear Maps- 4. Polynomials- 5. Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors, and Invariant Subspaces- 6. Inner Product Spaces- 7. Operators on Inner Product Spaces- 8. Operators on Complex Vector Spaces- 9. Operators on Real Vector Spaces- 10. Trace and Determinant-Photo Credits-Symbol Index-Index.

Genres: Mathematics, Textbooks

567 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Misrab · Rating 4 out of 5]

Did the 3rd edition in college, but couldn't resist going through the new 4th edition. In particular loved an approach without the use of determinants until very late. Always fun to reconstruct things like SVD from scratch.

[Madison Poore · Rating 3 out of 5]

read every page and desperately wanting to reach my 2024 reading goal hehe

[Owen Levens · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn’t wanna know how to compute anything anyway

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

the linear algebra textbook par excellence