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Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon is a text for a first undergraduate course. It is free. Use it as the main book, as a supplement, or for independent study.
Highlights
- Standard coverage Linear systems and Gauss's method, vector spaces, linear maps and matrices, determinants, and eigenvectors and eigenvalues.
- Developmental approach The book proves all of the results but does not start by assuming that students are already able at abstract work. Instead, it proceeds with a great deal of motivation, many computational examples, and many exercises. The goal is to raise each student's level of mathematical maturity.
- Extensive exercise sets Each subsection has a wide range of exercises, from routine verifications to a few challenges. The book of solutions gives the answer to every one, completely worked. And, clicking on a problem takes you to its answer while clicking on the answer takes you back to the problem.
- Prerequisite One semester of calculus.
- Free Everything is Freely available, including the LATEX source. You can also buy a paper copy of the book.
Available at:
https://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/