Timeline for Linear Algebra Texts?
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| Jun 19, 2010 at 11:49 | comment | added | Carl Mummert | I have taught out of "Linear Algebra Done Right" and I like it. The main drawback I saw was that I had to introduce more computational problems (for example, so that the students could explicitly compute changes-of-basis and such). The book stays with real and complex spaces, so it's not an upper level text. But the proofs are very nice. I'm planning to use it again the next time I teach a linear algebra course at that level. | |
| Jun 19, 2010 at 9:50 | history | edited | Anton Petrunin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 3, 2010 at 20:48 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | I forgot about Halmos. You should add it as a separate answer, since I'd vote it up, but as you can see, I really think Axler's book goes about things the wrong way. | |
| Mar 3, 2010 at 20:08 | comment | added | Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson | I'm quite fond of Halmos's FDVS. It certainly takes the abstract vector spaces approach with seriousness and gusto. I was planning on writing an answer of my own pointing towards Halmos, but endorsing this might do the trick just as well. | |
| Mar 3, 2010 at 19:58 | history | answered | none | CC BY-SA 2.5 |