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Montiel, Mariana; Wilhelmi, Miguel R.; Vidakovic, Draga; Elstak, Iwan – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2012
In a previous study, the onto-semiotic approach was employed to analyse the mathematical notion of different coordinate systems, as well as some situations and university students' actions related to these coordinate systems in the context of multivariate calculus. This study approaches different coordinate systems through the process of change of…
Descriptors: Calculus, Matrices, Semiotics, Linguistic Theory
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London, R. R.; Rogosinski, H. P. – American Mathematical Monthly, 1990
Described is a decomposition theory from which the Cayley-Hamilton theorem, the diagonalizability of complex square matrices, and functional calculus can be developed. The theory and its applications are based on elementary polynomial algebra. (KR)
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculus, College Mathematics, Equations (Mathematics)