Linear Algebra and Its Applications

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The diverse list of examples are already reason enough to recommend “Linear Algebra and Its Applications”. David Lay is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Canadian Mathematical Society, the International Linear Algebra Society, the Mathematical Association of America, Sigma Xi, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Strang is more fun to read, too: Strang really loves linear algebra and it shows, while Lay is very dry (except for one isolated joke: a sight gag in the discussion of linear transformations involving a sheared sheep).Given the practical emphasis, it is anomalous that a whole chapter of 26 pages is devoted to determinants. William Gilbert Strang (born November 27, 1934), usually known as simply Gilbert Strang or Gil Strang, is an American mathematician, with contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra. If you're interested in any of these areas, preparation with this book would not only be helpful but quite fun along the way. If you can reduce a mathematical problem to a problem in linear algebra, you can most likely solve it, provided you know enough linear algebra.

Linear algebra is relatively easy for students during the early stages of the course, when the material is presented in a familiar, concrete setting.It gives a great insight into linear algebra and the format is such that it is not overwhelmingly theoretical.