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The Little Book of Linear Algebra

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468 points scapbi | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 14:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.454s | source
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barrenko ◴[02 Sep 25 17:42 UTC] No.45106476[source]▶
Tried to pick a book to get into linear algebra recently, the experience was fairly hellish. First course this, second course that, done right, done wrong... I'd to the LADR4e route, but I don't have the proof-it chops yet...
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1. rramadass ◴[03 Sep 25 00:25 UTC] No.45110857[source]▶
You might want to checkout the book Practical Linear Algebra: A Geometry Toolbox by Dianne Hansford and Gerald Farin (its 1st edition was simply named The Geometry Toolbox: For Graphics and Modeling) to get an intuitive and visual introduction to Linear Algebra.

Pair it with Edgar Goodaire's Linear Algebra: Pure & Applied and you can transition nicely from intuitive geometric to pure mathematical approach. The author's writing style is quite accessible.

Add in Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares by Stephen Boyd et al. and you are golden. Free book available at https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/

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2. barrenko ◴[05 Sep 25 07:57 UTC] No.45136099[source]▶
Thank you, with vmls I was sort-of familiar.