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In this final chapter we will give an application of some of the techniques introduced in this book to the study of equations of degree two. We started the book by considering the geometry of lines and planes; we will see now how some of the more powerful ideas that have resulted by introducing greater abstraction can be employed to solve more complex problems in geometry. Thus, in a sense, we will have come full circle.
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Towers, D.A. (1988). Orthogonal Reduction of Symmetric Matrices. In: Guide to Linear Algebra. Macmillan Mathematical Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09318-2_8
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