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Wow! Your textbook looks phenomenal. Eyeballing the table of contents and a few chapters, this arrangement of material looks exactly like what I'm advocating th
by throwawaymath 8y ago
Wow! Your textbook looks phenomenal. Eyeballing the table of contents and a few chapters, this arrangement of material looks exactly like what I'm advocating throughout this thread. Gaussian elimination and systems of linear equations before vector spaces, a coverage of fields in tandem with vector spaces, some treatment of sets and functions in appendices, generous usage of matrices to supplement theory...
And you include solutions for your exercises? This is fantastic! Do you have any plans to write something like this for functional analysis?
- jimhefferon 8y agoThank you, that's very kind. Working on Theory of Computation. Don't know any functional analysis, sorry.
- dexter_t 8y agoThis is great news. Please model the Theory of Computation book after your Linear Algebra book (by including full solutions). This is an excellent resource for self-learners. Do you have a timeline for the release of the book? Would you have any interest in writing an Abstract Algebra text?
- jimhefferon 8y ago> Do you have a timeline for the release of the book? Several years. I have a very early draft, no doubt full of errors, that I am teaching from. It is linked-to from the linear page. > Would you have any interest in writing an Abstract Algebra text? Sorry, no. But all my stuff is Free and you could take the .cls file, etc. Go nuts.
- dexter_t 8y agoThank you for your contributions. I want to echo what others have said. Thank you for providing complete solutions to your linear algebra book. This is an incredibly useful resource for self-learners.
- derangedHorse 8y agoThese things take time lol, he might not even want to write any other books after that theory of computation one!