That was not my experience -- I was utterly confused by my college linear algebra class which was taught as a bag of techniques. I couldn't figure out why anyo

That was not my experience -- I was utterly confused by my college linear algebra class which was taught as a bag of techniques. I couldn't figure out why anyone would care or what you would do with any of it. And I definitely didn't get the connections to the geometry that Strang goes over in Ch4 iirc. Strang taught me linear algebra. His course -- and I read a couple other books afterwards -- is the only reason I understand it. Not only the how of the techniques, but why and what they do. I don't suppose there's an english translation of the Schlesinger book? Google says no.