Linear Algebra

by David Joyner and George Nakos

This text fully integrates applications and technology into the linear algebra course, and provides coverage of provocative topics, such as chaos theory and coding theory. The authors designed this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534955266
• ISBN13: 9780534955267
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: PWS Pub. Co.
• Length: 666 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.6" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

promising textbook

I just used this book for an undergraduate LA course.Most of the book is remarkably clear and straight-forward. For example, the authors manage to avoid sigma notation entirely in the proofs. The book has a nice balance of applications, computer work and theory. Before taking the course I did some work in Anton's 7th edition. The definitions and theorems in Nakos/Joyner are much clearer and less wordy than Anton's.The book still has a lot of rough edges, though. Typos abound and the text is murky in some spots. I think this would be an excellent text for an undergraduate course if the instructor used it with a critical eye to its weak spots. The second edition, if there is one, should be much more polished and, perhaps, a good choice for self study.