First Course in Linear Algebra

by Daniel Zelinsky

Book Overview

This book is a replica of the original from the collections of The New York Public Library; it was produced from digital images created by The New York Public Library and its partners as part of their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0127790608
• ISBN13: 9780127790602
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Academic Pr
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very clear, concise, and surprisingly rigorous

I inherited this book from an uncle who had taken Dr. Zelinsky's linear algebra course at Northwestern University in the '70's, and it is amazingly clear and concise. I was surprised by the number of proofs - it is very rigorous with the topics it covers, and the problems are very doable. However, it only briefly touches on generalized vector spaces and does not include such concepts as almost-diagonalizable matrices. For understanding linear algebra quickly and painlessly, this book is superb. However, for a more in-depth review of the topic, this is probably not going to be a first choice.