Minimal Polynomial and Jordan Canonical Form

 

All that's on this page is a link to a set of notes on the minimal polynomial and Jordan normal form. They were written in 2000 for a group of first-year undergraduates at St John's College, Cambridge, who were finding these to be the most difficult topics in the Linear Mathematics lecture course. I am grateful to them for their feedback.

The notes (9 pages) are available in PostScript or PDF.

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