Vector Spaces

The first three sections of this chapter provide a thorough presentation of the concepts of basis and dimension. The approach is unified in the sense that it does not treat finite and infinite-dimensional spaces separately. Important concepts such as algebraic complements, quotient spaces, direct sums, projections, linear functionals, and invariant subspaces make their first debut in section 3.4. Section 3.5 is a brief summary of matrix representations and diagonalization. Then the chapter introduces normed linear spaces followed by an extensive study of inner product spaces. The presentation of inner product spaces in this section and in section 4.10 is not limited to finite-dimensional spaces but rather to the properties of inner products that do not require completeness. The chapter concludes with the finite-dimensional spectral theory.