Always interesting to see if someone can write a great linear algebra book. I like Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right" [1] because he puts off the determinant u

Always interesting to see if someone can write a great linear algebra book. I like Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right" [1] because he puts off the determinant until it's clear why you want to define such a map. That the book continually treats the case when your field is the complex numbers slows things down at times, though. [1] http://linear.axler.net http://linear.axler.net