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Book SynopsisQuaternions are a number system that has become increasingly useful for representing the rotations of objects in three-dimensional space and has important applications in theoretical and applied mathematics, physics, computer science, and engineering. This is the first book to provide a systematic, accessible, and self-contained exposition of quate
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Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. xi*Chapter One. Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter Two. The algebra of quaternions, pg. 9*Chapter Three. Vector spaces and matrices: Basic theory, pg. 28*Chapter Four. Symmetric matrices and congruence, pg. 64*Chapter Five. Invariant subspaces and Jordan form, pg. 83*Chapter Six. Invariant neutral and semidefinite subspaces, pg. 131*Chapter Seven. Smith form and Kronecker canonical form, pg. 153*Chapter Eight. Pencils of hermitian matrices, pg. 172*Chapter Nine. Skewhermitian and mixed pencils, pg. 194*Chapter Ten. Indefinite inner products: Conjugation, pg. 228*Chapter Eleven. Matrix pencils with symmetries: Nonstandard involution, pg. 261*Chapter Twelve. Mixed matrix pencils: Nonstandard involutions, pg. 279*Chapter Thirteen. Indefinite inner products: Nonstandard involution, pg. 300*Chapter Fourteen. Matrix equations, pg. 328*Chapter Fifteen. Appendix: Real and complex canonical forms, pg. 339*Bibliography, pg. 353*Index, pg. 361
