Download or read book Finitely Generated Abelian Groups and Similarity of Matrices over a Field written by Christopher Norman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the decomposition of finitely generated abelian groups and canonical forms of matrices, and explores the analogous theory of matrix similarity over a field. Includes numerous worked examples and exercises with solutions.