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University of the Punjab

MATH-308 Rings and Vector Spaces

Ring Theory  Definition and example of rings
 Special classes of rings
 Fields
 Ideals and quotient rings
 Ring homomorphisms
 Prime and maximal ideals
 Field of quotients Vector Spaces
 Vector spaces, subspaces
 Linear combinations, linearly independent vectors
 Spanning set
 Bases and dimension of a vector space
 Homomorphism of vector spaces
 Quotient spaces Linear Mappings
 Mappings, linear mappings
 Rank and nullity
 Linear mappings and system of linear equations
 Algebra of linear operators
 Space L( X, Y) of all linear transformations
Matrices and Linear Operator  Matrix representation of a linear operator
 Change of basis
 Similar matrices
 Matrix and linear transformations
 Orthogonal matrices and orthogonal transformations
 Orthonormal basis and Gram Schmidt process
Eigen Values and Eigen Vectors
 Polynomials of matrices and linear operators
 Characteristic polynomial
 Diagonalization of matrices Dual Spaces
 Linear functionals
 Dual space
 Dual basis
 Annihilators
Credit hours/ Marks:- 3

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