Hoffman & Kunze is legitimately the best linear algebra book out there for non-brainlets. Why is anything else being recommended?
>accessible to the beginner but very rigorous
>exercises range from trivial to really, really hard proofs
>also has computational exercises to make sure you don't only get theory
>covers quite a bit of a couple abstract algebra topics
>great for teaching proofs to someone that doesn't know how to prove anything
>you can only do the first 3 chapters which covers a computational course or do the entire book which covers a ton of theory
Literally the only bad thing about the book is the outdated notation and terminology ("characteristic vector" instead of eigenvector etc). Axler is a fucking meme that doesn't even cover computation or determinants and the exercises aren't nearly as good. The other books like Roman and Lax are grad level books that cover things like Hilbert spaces, etc and aren't introductory. This should be the canonical book for Linear Algebra for anyone with an iq above 120.
>accessible to the beginner but very rigorous
>exercises range from trivial to really, really hard proofs
>also has computational exercises to make sure you don't only get theory
>covers quite a bit of a couple abstract algebra topics
>great for teaching proofs to someone that doesn't know how to prove anything
>you can only do the first 3 chapters which covers a computational course or do the entire book which covers a ton of theory
Literally the only bad thing about the book is the outdated notation and terminology ("characteristic vector" instead of eigenvector etc). Axler is a fucking meme that doesn't even cover computation or determinants and the exercises aren't nearly as good. The other books like Roman and Lax are grad level books that cover things like Hilbert spaces, etc and aren't introductory. This should be the canonical book for Linear Algebra for anyone with an iq above 120.
