Introduction to Linear Algebra
by Gilbert Strang · Gilbert Strang
Strang's widely used MIT textbook, built around the four fundamental subspaces and paired with his OCW 18.06 lectures. Covers elimination, matrix factorizations, orthogonality, determinants, and eigenvalues, so readers can compute with matrices and understand why the methods work.
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