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Inspired by the recent success of my "soft question" here, I also have to ask, what are some of the oldest linear algebra books out there with exercises? I'm fine with or without solutions, either way....

I am interested in the history of the proof of Artin's Theorem (on the diassociativity of alternative rings). Question. When has Artin proved this theorem and where was it published for the first ...

Mo-ers, Do you know how it was that the study of the Jordan canonical form began? There are certain things that may be said once one has thought about the matter: for instance, one can say that the ...

I'm learning linear algebra at the moment, so I'm looking for some great old classic books. Something like Fermat's or Gauss books of some great mathematians. I don't really like the nowadays books ...

Revision in response to the comments to earlier version: To introduce the notion of a basis of a finite dimensional vector space over an arbitrary field $\Lambda$, without performing any computation ...