
This text covers a standard first course. What sets it apart is careful motivation, many examples, and extensive exercise sets. These help each student master the material of the course and develop mathematical maturity.




The coverage is standard: linear systems and Gauss' method, vector spaces, linear maps and matrices, determinants, and eigenvectors and eigenvalues.Prerequisites: A semester of calculus. Students with three semesters of calculus can skip a few sections.Applications: Each chapter...

