Vaserstein, L. N. Linear algebra and algebraic K-theory. (English) Zbl 0669.15001 Classical groups and related topics, Proc. Conf., Beijing/China 1987, Contemp. Math. 82, 191-198 (1989). [For the entire collection see Zbl 0658.00005.] The author gives an informal introduction for non-experts to the functor \(K_ 1\), based on the study of linear equations over arbitrary rings. Reviewer: M.Kolster Cited in 2 Documents MSC: 15A06 Linear equations (linear algebraic aspects) 18F25 Algebraic \(K\)-theory and \(L\)-theory (category-theoretic aspects) 20G99 Linear algebraic groups and related topics Keywords:algebraic K-theory; linear equations Citations:Zbl 0658.00005 PDFBibTeX XML