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Agree. I love the Gilbert Strang series and am working through it myself. Also, the book "Linear Algebra Done Right" by Sheldon Axler[1] is amazing. He has on
by seanhunter 3y ago
Agree. I love the Gilbert Strang series and am working through it myself. Also, the book "Linear Algebra Done Right" by Sheldon Axler[1] is amazing. He has on his website a set of short videos and slides to accompany it[2]. It's incredibly comprehensive and takes an interesting strategy of teaching all of linear algebra in a very rigorous fashion without introducing determinants until the end. His reasoning is explained in a paper he published called "Down with Determinants!"[3].
[1] https://linear.axler.net/ https://linear.axler.net/
[2] https://linear.axler.net/LADRvideos.html https://linear.axler.net/LADRvideos.html
[3] https://www.axler.net/DwD.html https://www.axler.net/DwD.html
- tptacek 3y agoAxler and Strang seem like pretty different approaches to the same subject, and if your goal is just to do stuff with linear algebra, rather than deepening your understanding of it or really getting how it generalizes to functions and stuff, Strang's approach is likely to be more immediately profitable. I like 'em both. I helped my daughter through UIUC linear algebra last semester, and Strang definitely prepped me for all the computation, all the way through the end of the class, but I needed to go back to Axler for all the proof stuff.
- seanhunter 3y agoI'm really enjoying them both for that precise reason.