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“The theory is systematically developed by the axiomatic method that has, since von Neumann, dominated
the general approach to linear functional analysis and that achieves here a high degree of lucidity and clarity.
The presentation is never awkward or dry, as it sometimes is in other “modern” textbooks; it is as
unconventional as one has come to expect from the author. The book contains about 350 well placed and
instructive problems, which cover a considerable part of the subject. All in all this is an excellent work, of
equally high value for both student and teacher.” Zentralblatt für Mathematik
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Master expositor Paul Halmos presents Linear Algebra in the pure axiomatic spirit. He writes "My purpose
in this book is to treat linear transformations on finite dimensional vector spaces by the methods of more
general theories. The idea is to emphasize the simple geometric notions common to many parts of
mathematics and its applications, and to do so in a language that gives away the trade secrets ...". This text is
an ideal supplement to modern treatments of Linear Algebra. "The theory is systematically developed by the
axiomatic method that has, since von Neumann, dominated the general approach to linear functional analysis
and that achieves here a high degree of lucidity and clarity....The book contains about 350 well placed and
instructive problems, which cover a considerable part of the subject. All in all this is an excellent work, of
equally high value for both student and teacher." --Zentralblatt für Mathematik.

● Sales Rank: #125100 in Books

● Published on: 2015-12-25
● Original language: English
● Number of items: 1
● Dimensions: 9.02" h x .48" w x 5.98" l, .69 pounds
● Binding: Paperback
● 208 pages

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“The theory is systematically developed by the axiomatic method that has, since von Neumann, dominated
the general approach to linear functional analysis and that achieves here a high degree of lucidity and clarity.
The presentation is never awkward or dry, as it sometimes is in other “modern” textbooks; it is as
unconventional as one has come to expect from the author. The book contains about 350 well placed and
instructive problems, which cover a considerable part of the subject. All in all this is an excellent work, of
equally high value for both student and teacher.” Zentralblatt für Mathematik

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73 of 74 people found the following review helpful.

Linear algebra for mathematicians
By John S. Ryan
I've just been looking on Amazon to see how some of my favorite old math texts are doing. I used this one
about twenty years ago as a supplementary reference in a graduate course, and I still have my copy.
Everybody with some mathematical background knows the name of Paul Richard Halmos. I saw him speak
at Kent State University while I was an undergraduate there (some twenty-odd years ago); to this day I
remember the sheer elegance of his presentation and even recall some of the specific points on which, like a
magician, he drew gasps and applause from his audience of mathematicians and math students.
This book displays the same elegance. If you're looking for a book that provides an exposition of linear
algebra the way mathematicians think of it, this is it.
This very fact will probably be a stumbling block for some readers. The difficulty is that, in order to
appreciate what Halmos is up to here, you have to have _enough_ practice in mathematical thinking to grasp
that linear algebra isn't the same thing as matrix algebra.
In your introductory linear algebra course, linear transformations were probably simply identified with
matrices. But really (i.e., mathematically), a linear transformation is a special sort of mathematical object,
one that can be _represented_ by a matrix (actually by a lot of different matrices) once a coordinate system
has been introduced, but one that 'lives' in the spaces with which abstract algebra deals, independently of any
choice of coordinates.
In short, don't expect numbers and calculations here. This book is about abstract algebraic structure, not
about matrix computations.
If that's not what you're looking for, you'll probably be disappointed in this book. If that _is_ what you want,
you may still find this book hard going, but the rewards will be worth the effort.

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful.

The great classic of linear algebra
By henrique fleming
This book has been around for so many years that reviewing it may seem a waste of time. Still, we should
not forget that new students keep appearing! Halmos is a wonderful text. Besides the clarity which marks all
of his books, this one has a pleasant characteristic: all concepts are patiently motivated (in words!) before
becoming part of the formalism. It was written at the time when the author, a distinguished mathematician by
himself, was under the spell of John von Neumann, at Princeton. Perhaps related to that is the fact that you
find surprising, brilliant proofs of even very well established results ( as, for instance, of the Schwartz
inequality). It has a clear slant to Hilbert space, despite the title, and the treatment of orthonormal systems
and the spectrum theorem is very good. On the other hand, there is little about linear mappings between
vector spaces of different dimensions, which are crucial for differential geometry. But this can be found
elsewhere. The problems are useful and, in general, not very difficult. All in all, an important tool for a
mathematical education.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.

A Classic for the mathematically-inclined. Good preparation for learning quantum mechanics.
By H Roller
This was one of the two textbooks (along with Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis) that was used
for the hot-shot freshman Math 218x course taught by Elias Stein at Princeton some years ago.

It is a great book, one of my all-time favorites. It requires a bit of mathematical maturity, that is a love of
mathematical proof and simplifying abstractions. This book abstractly defines vector spaces and linear
transformations between them without immediately introducing coordinates. This approach is vastly superior
to immediately extorting the reader to study the algebraic and arithmetic properties n-tuples of numbers
(vectors) and matrices (n x n tables of numbers) which parameterize the underlying abstract vectors and
linear transformations, respectively.

If I taught a linear algebra course using this book then there are a few deficiencies I would try to correct,
however.

1. The polar decomposition is covered but the singular value decomposition (for linear transformations
between different inner product spaces) is not mentioned. This is a pretty big gap in terms of applications,
although it's trivial to get the singular value decomposition if you have the polar decomposition.

2. The identification of an reflexive vector space with its double-dual was a stumbling block for me when I
took the course. There was no mathematical definition of "identify", and so I was confused. Perhaps a good
way to remedy this is to give a problem with the example of the Banach space L^p (perhaps just on a finite
set of just two elements), and show how L^p is dual to L^p'.

3. The section on tensor products should be improved and expanded, especially in light of the new field of
quantum information theory. I remember being quite confused about what a tensor product was until I
realized some years later that the tensor product of L^2(R) with itself is L^2(R^2), an example which I think
should be mentioned, even if it requires a bit of vagueness about Lebesgue measurability.

4. It would be nice to have a problem (or take-home final) where the reader proves the spectral theorem
using minimal polynomials without recourse to determinants, and introduces the functional calculus just
using polynomials. It is disturbing to see how many physics grad students are so hung up thinking of
eigenvalues only as roots of the characteristic polynomial that they can't understand properties of the
spectrum of a self-adjoint transformation A by considering polynomials of A.

The functional calculus could be introduced with the following

Problem: For a function f:R->R and a self-adjoint matrix A (or more generally a possibly nonunitarily
diagonalizable matrix A with complex eigenvalues and f:C->C) define f(A)=P(A) where P is a polynomial
chosen so that P(lamda) = f(lamda) for all lamda.

A. Show that f(A) is well defined.

B. Show that (f+g) (A) =f(A)+g(A), (fg)(A) = f(A) g(A), and (f composed g) (A) = f(g(A))
C. Show that d/dt exp(tA) = Aexp(tA)
D. Show that it is false that d/dt exp(A+tB) = B exp(A+tB) for matrices A and B.
E. If f is differentiable show that d/dt Tr f(A+tB) = Tr B f'(A+tB)
F. Show that the rotation U(theta) of R^2 by an angle theta is given by Exp(tJ), where J={{0,1},{-1,0}}.

5. I missed the connection between polynomials of a matrix and the Jordan form when I learned linear
algebra from this book. Perhaps the following problems would be helpful, and give a proper finite-
dimensional introduction to the Dunford calculus (before it is slightly-obfuscated in infinite dimensions
using Cauchy's formula):

Problem A: Let P be a complex polynomial, and let A be a linear transformation on a complex vector space,
with eigenvalues {z_1,...,z_n}, and let the Jordan block corresponding to z_k have a string of 1's that is at
most s_k elements long. Then the value of P(A) is determined by the values of P and its first s_k derivatives
at the z_k. (One defines the derivative of a function from C to C by taking a limit of difference quotients, in
the same way one defines a derivative of a real function. In particular, the usual rules for differentiating
polynomials apply.)

Problem B: (Finite-dimensional Dunford calculus, assuming differentiablity only on the spectrum) Suppose
that f:C->C has s_k complex derivatives at the z_k. Define f(A)=P(A), where P is a polynomial with
derivatives up to order s_k agreeing with those of f at the z_k. Show that such polynomials always exist. (In
particular, f(A) is well-defined by problem A.) Show that (f+g)(A)=f(A)+g(A), f(A)g(A)=(fg)(A), and
f(g(A))=h(A), where h is the composition of f and g as functions from C->C.

Problem C: Use B to show that every nonsigular matrix has a square root, as do singular matrices with no 1's
in the jordan block for the eigenvalue 0.

Problem D: Are the only matrices with square roots given by problem C?
Except for property (3) above, this is a good book for students who are interested in taking a quantum
mechanics or quantum computing course in the future.

6. A bit more connection to calculus should be made, if only in optional exercises. Students should know
how to compute d/dt det(A) and d/dt A^(-1), where A=A(t) is a matrix-valued function of time t.

If you read this book and like it, then in the future you might want the following graduate-level textbooks:

Bhatia's book "Matrix Analysis".

Reed and Simon's "Methods of Mathematical Physics", especially volume 1 on functional analysis. (This is
the infinite-dimensional version of Halmos's book.)

Halmos's "A Hilbert Space Problem Book"

You'll certainly need to learn some analysis before tackling the last two books, though!

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“The theory is systematically developed by the axiomatic method that has, since von Neumann, dominated
the general approach to linear functional analysis and that achieves here a high degree of lucidity and clarity.
The presentation is never awkward or dry, as it sometimes is in other “modern” textbooks; it is as
unconventional as one has come to expect from the author. The book contains about 350 well placed and
instructive problems, which cover a considerable part of the subject. All in all this is an excellent work, of
equally high value for both student and teacher.” Zentralblatt für Mathematik

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Halmos perfectly. Link to internet, download, and save to your tool. Exactly what else to ask? Reading can
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