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6.2 A Canonical Form for Nilpotent Mappings.

So far not interested!!

"As a second step in and test case for our program to find a canonical form for a general linear mapping, we look at linear mappings N: V → V which have only one distinct eigen value λ with multiplicity n=dim(V)."

Why do i need to go through this? 😭😭😭😭

"There are two reasons for considering nilpotent mappings." Orly

1 "since there is only one distinct eigen value to deal with, we will be able to see much more clearly exactly what our canonical form should look like in this case"

2 "we will see in the next section that the general case may be reduced to this one, so all the ideas introduced here will be useful later as well."

OR we could simply not prove JCF?