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Chapter 4
Polynomials
This short chapter contains no linear algebra. It does contain the
background material on polynomials that we will need in our study
of linear maps from a vector space to itself. Many of the results in
this chapter will already be familiar to you from other courses; they
are included here for completeness. Because this chapter is not about
linear algebra, your instructor may go through it rapidly. You may not
be asked to scrutinize all the proofs. Make sure, however, that you
at least read and understand the statements of all the results in this
chapter—they will be used in the rest of the book.
Recall that F denotes R or C.
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