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Which textbook should a beginner get for linear alg? I've read the wiki, but idk if I should get Lay's or Strang's book
I'm on the quarter system and I'm about to take a course called "Matrix Algebra with Applications" (I assume it's just linear algebra?) (syllabus: http://www.math.washington.edu/Undergrad/courses/308/308syl.php)
So far, I've only take Calc 1-3 (we didn't cover green's theorem or gradient planes in calc 3 because quarter system, that other stuff is covered in a different class called "intro to multivariable calc")
btw i'm a statistics major, maybe will double major in cs or math
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>>8548918
>Which textbook should a beginner get for linear alg?
Make a long list of books and start some of them.
Eventually you'll come to like a few.
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>>8548940
They're pretty expensive though
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>>8548918
Shilov
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>>8548942
I don't know where you live but here my internet provider does not charge me too much for a 10 mb download. It is probably like 0.0001 cents.
Why is the internet cost so high where you live? I suggest you protest against that. The internet cannot be so expensive so that you cannot afford to download a pdf holy shit that is horrible. What's the internet provider so that we can start a change.org campaign.
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>>8548942
>They're pretty expensive though
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
That's what I do as well and I'm a physicist.
I start I book and If I don't like it I say fuck off and start another.
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>>8548918
> I've read the wiki, but idk if I should get Lay's or Strang's book
The wikia clearly says that Lay and Strang are overpriced ripoffs. Get any Dover Matrix Algebra book:
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Linear-Algebra-Marvin-Marcus/dp/0486656950/
https://www.amazon.com/Matrices-Linear-Algebra-Dover-Mathematics/dp/0486660141/
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algebra-Differential-Equations-Mathematics/dp/0486651916/
https://www.amazon.com/Matrices-Linear-Transformations-Second-Mathematics/dp/0486663280/
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Someone suggested this a couple days back, I'm going through it
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>>8549564
is it any good brah
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This one.
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>>8548962
kek
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>>8549566
so far it is, I'm just started with this stuff though, so I'm new to all of it. But the pace is good, and the proofs are readable
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