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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 ...

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....

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 ...