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In this chapter, we introduce the concept of determinant in various ways. The invariant subspaces, the eigen values, the spectral theorem, the geometry of orthogonal transformations, and the geometry of bilinear forms also constitute the subject matter of this paper.
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Lal, R. (2017). Determinants and Forms. In: Algebra 2. Infosys Science Foundation Series(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4256-0_5
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