Includes index.

Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Using Code Examples -- O'Reilly Online Learning -- How to Contact Us -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- What Is Linear Algebra and Why Learn It? -- About This Book -- Prerequisites -- Math -- Attitude -- Coding -- Mathematical Proofs Versus Intuition from Coding -- Code, Printed in the Book and Downloadable Online -- Code Exercises -- How to Use This Book (for Teachers and Self Learners) -- Chapter 2. Vectors, Part 1 -- Creating and Visualizing Vectors in NumPy -- Geometry of Vectors

Operations on Vectors -- Adding Two Vectors -- Geometry of Vector Addition and Subtraction -- Vector-Scalar Multiplication -- Scalar-Vector Addition -- Transpose -- Vector Broadcasting in Python -- Vector Magnitude and Unit Vectors -- The Vector Dot Product -- The Dot Product Is Distributive -- Geometry of the Dot Product -- Other Vector Multiplications -- Hadamard Multiplication -- Outer Product -- Cross and Triple Products -- Orthogonal Vector Decomposition -- Summary -- Code Exercises -- Chapter 3. Vectors, Part 2 -- Vector Sets -- Linear Weighted Combination -- Linear Independence

The Math of Linear Independence -- Independence and the Zeros Vector -- Subspace and Span -- Basis -- Definition of Basis -- Summary -- Code Exercises -- Chapter 4. Vector Applications -- Correlation and Cosine Similarity -- Time Series Filtering and Feature Detection -- k-Means Clustering -- Code Exercises -- Correlation Exercises -- Filtering and Feature Detection Exercises -- k-Means Exercises -- Chapter 5. Matrices, Part 1 -- Creating and Visualizing Matrices in NumPy -- Visualizing, Indexing, and Slicing Matrices -- Special Matrices

Matrix Math: Addition, Scalar Multiplication, Hadamard Multiplication -- Addition and Subtraction -- "Shifting" a Matrix -- Scalar and Hadamard Multiplications -- Standard Matrix Multiplication -- Rules for Matrix Multiplication Validity -- Matrix Multiplication -- Matrix-Vector Multiplication -- Matrix Operations: Transpose -- Dot and Outer Product Notation -- Matrix Operations: LIVE EVIL (Order of Operations) -- Symmetric Matrices -- Creating Symmetric Matrices from Nonsymmetric Matrices -- Summary -- Code Exercises -- Chapter 6. Matrices, Part 2 -- Matrix Norms

Matrix Trace and Frobenius Norm -- Matrix Spaces (Column, Row, Nulls) -- Column Space -- Row Space -- Null Spaces -- Rank -- Ranks of Special Matrices -- Rank of Added and Multiplied Matrices -- Rank of Shifted Matrices -- Theory and Practice -- Rank Applications -- In the Column Space? -- Linear Independence of a Vector Set -- Determinant -- Computing the Determinant -- Determinant with Linear Dependencies -- The Characteristic Polynomial -- Summary -- Code Exercises -- Chapter 7. Matrix Applications -- Multivariate Data Covariance Matrices

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