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Renowned professor and author Gilbert Strang demonstrates that linear algebra is a fascinating subject by showing both its beauty and value. While the mathematics is there, the effort is not all concentrated on proofs. Strang's emphasis is on understanding. He explains concepts, rather than deduces. This book is written in an informal and personal style and teaches real mathematics. The gears change in Chapter 2 as students reach the introduction of vector spaces. Throughout the book, the theory is motivated and reinforced by genuine applications, allowing pure mathematicians to teach applied mathematics.
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Gilbert Strang is Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College. He was an undergraduate at MIT and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. His doctorate was from UCLA and since then he has taught at MIT. He has been a Sloan Fellow and a Fairchild Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Strang has published a monograph with George Fix, "An Analysis of the Finite Element Method", and has authored six widely used textbooks. He served as President of SIAM during 1999 and 2000 and he is Chair of the U.S. National Committee on Mathematics for 2003-2004.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cengage Learning; 4th edition (January 1, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 487 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0030105676
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0030105678
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1 x 7.25 x 9.25 inches
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Gilbert Strang is Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College. He was an undergraduate at MIT and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. His doctorate was from UCLA and since then he has taught at MIT. He has been a Sloan Fellow and a Fairchild Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Strang has published a monograph with George Fix, "An Analysis of the Finite Element Method", and has authored six widely used textbooks. He served as President of SIAM during 1999 and 2000 and he is Chair of the U.S. National Committee on Mathematics for 2003-2004.

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Unfortunately, the Kindle Edition isn't easily usable due to the lack of formatting for the vectors and matrices, which, for a book on Linear Algebra, is disappointing. I was looking forward to use the 4th Edition of this book to go along with Mr. Strang's course available on MIT OpenCourseWare, but I will have to look elsewhere - the content itself came highly recommended, and I'm sure it's a solid book otherwise.
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Petter Eilif de Lange
5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Linear Algebra book
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2023
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Strang can teach math to anybody!
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Chelsea
4.0 out of 5 stars Good for Graduate (2nd) course in Linear Algebra
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2015
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Context: The use of this book is paralleling a graduate level course for linear algebra having taken an undergraduate course in the same (8 years ago).

Quick tips if you're debating this book:
- This is not a good book for a first course in linear algebra. You should be strong in matrix operations and understand functions such as traces, determinants, inverses, etc. The first chapter isn't going to walk you through it.
- If this is for a course and you're contemplating an international edition, note the questions at the end of each section are mixed up. This could mess you up with homework from the book.

There are 5 star reviews out there that provide a good picture of what you can get out of the book. While I agree with those, as mentioned earlier, this is not a first course in linear algebra. Even having taken a course years ago I keep my initial course book with me to help through this book. There is an extensive use of formula instruction and variable based proofs, but when getting to quantitative examples it is rather fast paced jumping over steps.
Publishing material of the book is solid, with a heavy cover and pages. Text is easily legible and thus far I haven't noticed typos enough to distract me.
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Alex Holt
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book to learn linear algebra
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2020
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This is an amazing book. I used this book in order to study for my second linear algebra course and it was a big help. Linear algebra can be a complex and daunting subject but Strang does a great job of making all the content relevant and interesting. The level of detail and clear explanations from Strang are just amazing and I would recommend the book to any college student curious about diving into the field of linear algebra.
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robert m
5.0 out of 5 stars Strang is the last word in lin alg
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2012
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If you are taking Lin Alg then you have heard of Strang. This is his more advanced book on the topic and it is the be all end all of the topic. I have taken a couple grad courses that did not use this book but the instructor instead wanted to use an obscure text written by someone they knew. I bought this book and used it as a resource for both and it was worth every penny. Things i needed for the other courses were explained well and things that were not necessary were written in an interesting manner and i learned them on my own. I would love to have had him as my adviser or someone to just sit and have coffee with every morning and discuss math.
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mrpenguin99
3.0 out of 5 stars Eh...I don't recommend it.
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2011
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The book was okay, but I cannot recommend it to anyone. Strang, the author, does not explain the topics too well. This book is definitely not, in my opinion, a book for beginners or people just being exposed, for the first time, to linear algebra.

Apparently, everyone who took linear algebra at my university last semester agreed. My school offered two sections of the class last semester with both professors using the same book. Next semester, based on student feedback, both professors unanimously agreed to switch to another book.

The worked-out examples are very few in number and do not cover the topics gone over in the problems at the end of each section in the book. In my previous calculus books, if I had trouble on a problem, I could go back to a specific section in the chapter and read why a certain answer was the answer. In this book, despite the claims that linear algebra is a well understood mathematical discipline, it was nearly impossible to find a good explanation as to why a certain answer was a good answer.

There is another thing. Strang would often put problems on a certain topic in, say chapter one and not officially go over that topic in, say, chapter three. In my opinion, that is such a bad way to introduce a topic to a beginner and quite the turnoff.

For the most part, the online video lectures do help in further explaining the topics gone over in the book. But, the online video lectures are from Spring 1999 and a different book, so the material is a little dated but easy to follow.

Unless your professor knows exactly what he is talking about, I would recommend finding another supplementary text to better understand the topics gone over in this book. This book was definitely not worth the $170 I paid for it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Order and Done
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2021
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nullspace
Reviewed in Canada on December 17, 2017
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Some minor issues in the textbook but a great tool but beginners and even for more advanced students
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Marcello Perathoner
5.0 out of 5 stars Für Anwender
Reviewed in Germany on November 2, 2018
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Wenn man Lineare Algebra lernt um sie anzuwenden, und nicht um Mathematik zu studieren, dann ist dieses Buch das richtige.

Die anderen Authoren, die ich gelesen habe, hangeln sich von Theorem zu Beweis und würden lieber tot umfallen als ein Beispiel oder eine Anwendung für den Stoff zu bringen. (z.B. Halmos, Perlis, Axler.)

Dieses Buch ist anders, da es erläutert, wozu man den Stoff überhaupt braucht. Am Schluß der meisten Kapitel wird eine praktische Anwendung vorgestellt und durchgerechnet. Zum Beispiel beginnt das Kapitel über Eigenwerte und Eigenvektoren mit dem Hinweis, daß man damit Systeme von Differentialgleichnungen lösen kann. Diesen Hinweis habe ich in keinem der anderen Bücher gefunden.

Das Buch ist zum Selbststudium gut geeignet. Es enthält viele Aufgaben. Zur Hälfte der Aufgaben befindet sich im Anhang eine Lösung. Ich habe mir gleich ein zweites Buch dieses Authors gekauft.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece
Reviewed in Germany on April 13, 2022
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Prof. Strange breaks LA down to its core and makes it easy to understand.

I use this book not only for my classes, but also quite often as a source along my research.
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Hartmut Wolf
1.0 out of 5 stars Kindle-Ausgabe unbrauchbar!
Reviewed in Germany on October 7, 2020
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Da hat jemand bei der Konversion ins Kindle-Format Mist gebaut ... und sich noch nicht mal angesehen, was er denn da fabriziert hat!
Schauen Sie die Vorschau im Kindle-Format an! (Vorschau für die gedruckte Version ist nicht verfügbar). Wie sowas durch die Qualitätssicherung kommen kann ist ein Rätsel.
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