Techniques of Deductive Inference

multilinear algebra, including determinants and characteristic equations under this heading. Chapter V deals with norms and inner product spaces and concludes by considering isometries and self-adjoint transformations. In a final Chapter VI coordinates are introduced and canonical forms for matrices are dealt with. There are a fair number of exercises to which solutions are given; the presentation is good, and the above list of topics indicates by its order the general emphasis on " transformations " rather than " matrices ".