>>10235422Second this, OP should read/do Hoffman & Kunze. If can finish H&K, there's no reason he can't then do Roman, Advanced Linear Algebra. The first couple of chapters are review of H&K material, then it goes to chapters on multilinear algebra, Hilbert spaces, applications in affine geometry, and ending with the Umbral Calculus.
So Gelfand->Undergrad->Graduate in 3 books. The chad Algebraist vs the virgin meme list follower.