ABSTRACT
This appendix contains a brief review of the main ideas of linear algebra that will be needed in Part II of the text. For details and proofs the reader is referred to [9].
zero vector, together with two operations u + v and au (u, v ∈ V, a ∈ R), called vector addition and scalar multiplication, respectively, such that for all u, v, w ∈ V and a, b ∈ R the following axioms hold: • Associativity of addition: (u+ v) +w = u+ (v +w).
