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Anyone have a suggestion for a good online course in linear algebra?

• throwawaymath 8y ago
  Yes, UIUC offers very good online math courses: https://netmath.illinois.edu/college/math-415 https://netmath.illinois.edu/college/math-415. There is also a more pure/abstract version of that course available. If you don’t care about accreditation and are patient, sit down with Axler’s Linear Algebra Done Right and Hoffman & Kunze’s Linear Algebra, in that order. I would caution you against trying to learn linear algebra using a “take what you need” approach. A random walk approach to learning the material is faster than an accumulation approach, but it’s more brittle and prone to confusion. A lot of things which appear to be irrelevant or unnecessary for machine learning (computation or research) can be imperative for understanding or implementing much more complex concepts later on.
  • lordfoom 8y ago
    Thank you! I am interested in the knowledge rather than the credits, so I appreciate the book recommendations :)
• randcraw 8y ago
  I like "Coding the Matrix" by Philip Klein of Brown delivered via Coursera. It's a deep content intro to linear algebra (and more), with a focus on applications in computer science. The course is accompanied by a textbook written by Klein, which makes the course material better organized and more in-depth than slides and videos alone would allow. http://codingthematrix.com/ http://codingthematrix.com/
  • lordfoom 8y ago
    Thank you, this looks great :)
• ivan_ah 8y ago
  The video lectures of Prof. Gilbert Strang’s linear algebra class at MIT are very good: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-... He's an amazing teacher and conveys a lot of intuition + makes even complicated ideas look straightforward.
  • lordfoom 8y ago
    Awesome resource, thank you!