Linear algebra with applications

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1. andaiMar 2025
   >There’s also a tendency in contemporary textbooks to try to relate topics to concrete things in the real world.

   This seems to be a personality thing. I was doing a Linear Algebra course last year and complained at the lack of applications in our textbook.

   It seemed so strange to me. Here's this wonderful subject with literally dozens of wonderful, practical, illuminating real-world applications, which make the subject more concrete and easier to understand (and help you understand what's the point of all these obscure manipulations). And the book just... doesn't mention a single one of them? It felt both dishonest and pedagogically unskillful.

   I expressed these feelings to my classmates and was met with disgust: "We are pure mathematicians. We do not concern ourselves with applications!"

   Lucky for me, their disgust led them to discard several wonderful "Linear Algebra With Applications" books to the "free book pile", which I made excellent use of and greatly enjoyed.

   That being said, in most of these books the "applications" are confined to a bonus section at the end of each chapter, and do not interfere with the main text.

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2. abdullahkhalidsApr 2024
   Yes. His books

   Calculus, Volume 1, One-variable calculus, with an introduction to linear algebra,

   Calculus, Volume 2, Multi-variable calculus and linear algebra with applications to differential equations and probability,

   Damn good books.

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3. agumonkeyOct 2023
   talking about amazon, someone suggested me to get gareth williams linear algebra with applications (5 bucks on ebay)

   it's a good applied primer, not big on concepts, more about the mechanics, and it unlocked a lot of things in my head because dry textbook morphisms definitions sent me against imaginary walls faster than c

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4. dragandjOct 2018
   Original title: Programmer, Teach Yourself Foundations of ML and AI with these 6 Books

   Books:

   - Ian Hacking - Introduction to probability and Inductive Logic

   - John Kruschke - Doing Bayesian Data Analysis

   - Gareth Williams - Linear Algebra with Applications, Alternate Edition

   - Matthew Scarpino - OpenCL in Action

   - Michael Nielsen - Neural Networks and Deep Learning

   - Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville - Deep Learning

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5. agumonkeyApr 2016
   Gareth Williams Linear Algebra with Applications (6th edition). 2nd hands were very cheap on amazon, some people got one for 90c, I paid 5$ for mine. 5 Very well spent dollars.

   http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Applications-Gareth-Wil...

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6. JtsummersFeb 2022
   I mean, she said she had taken math classes "up to linear algebra" and she took the course to learn linear algebra so I would guess that it was linear algebra. Google confirms: https://www.math.princeton.edu/undergraduate/placement/MAT20... - Linear Algebra with Applications.
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