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That's fine, but then maybe this book shouldn't then be the top comment for being recommended as a "good first course" then?

• Koshkin 3y ago
  Well, perhaps it's not meant to be the first book on mathematics one sees in their life.
  • echion 3y ago
    It's supposed to be the introduction to rigorous proof, so it is supposed to be "the first book on [formal] mathematics" for its audience.
  • margalabargala 3y ago
    From the second paragraph of the introduction to the book we are discussing: > Besides being a first course in linear algebra it is also supposed to be a first course introducing a student to rigorous proof, formal definitions---in short, to the style of modern theoretical (abstract) mathematics. So it's certainly meant to be the first math book one sees in their life that discusses rigorous proofs.