Maths - Matrix algebra and 3D transformation

Maths - Matrix algebra - Further Reading

Matrix Computations

Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Tensor Calculus - I'm finding this hard going, it starts off with as review of linear algebra, matrix notation, etc. It redefines a lot of conventions which are hard to relearn, such as superscrips instead of subscripts to identify elements, and a summation convention, then it goes into coordinate transformations. I cant find any definition of what a tensor is. I think this book is aimed at people who already have some knowledge of the subject.

Tensor Calculus and Analytical Dynamics

Tensor Analysis on Manifolds.

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Dark Basic Professional Edition - It is better to get this professional edition

This is a version of basic designed for building games, for example to rotate a cube you might do the following:
make object cube 1,100
for x=1 to 360
rotate object 1,x,x,0
next x

Game Programming with Darkbasic - book for above software

Discussion about using Darkbasic for physics simulation

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Please send me any improvements to here. I would appreciate ideas to make the pages more useful including error correction, ideas for new pages, improvements to wording. It helps if you quote the full URL of the page.

I need to expand to cover the following topics:

Unit matrix
Symmetric and skew-symmetric
Adjoint and Reciprocol
Orthogonal and unitary
Scale
Translation
Orthogonal
Rigid
Congruent
Affine
multiply by scalar
multiply by vector

if [I][a] = [a] does [a][I] = [a] ?

if [b][b]^-1=[I] does [b]^-1[b] =[I] ?

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