What are the best resources for understanding Jordan Canonical Form proofs?

[joecoz88]

Does anybody know of any good websites that contain a clear proof of the existence of the Jordan Canonical Form of matrices? My professor really confused me today

 

[HallsofIvy]

Did you try looking it up yourself? Googling on "Jordan Canonical Form" quickly gave this
http://teal.gmu.edu/ececourses/ece521/lecturenote/chap1/node3.html
which looks pretty good.

 

[Ben Niehoff]

Incidentally, the Jordan canonical form makes it really easy to prove the Cayley-Hamilton theorem (which was assigned as a homework problem in our math methods class :p).

 

[mathwonk]

the best book on jordan form is the notes for math 4050 on this website:

http://www.math.uga.edu/~roy/