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Summary: ERRORS
Review: After reading the first chapter I found 6 errors within the first 14 pages. These are simple equation errors. For example, page 6, the distance equation has a1-b1 and it should be an-bn. These Phd's should have had a student(may be several) review their work for the simple errors.
Rating:
Summary: ERRORS
Review: After reading the first chapter I found 6 errors within the first 14 pages. These are simple equation errors. For example, page 6, the distance equation has a1-b1 and it should be an-bn. These Phd's should have had a student(may be several) review their work for the simple errors.
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Summary: Excellent book !
Review: First of all I would like to clarify that there is one more book in schaum's series on linear algebra by one of these authors and is called '3000 solved problems in linear algebra'. Dont get confused, I havent read that book.This book is an excellent book for both theory and problems. It has numerous solved examples ...and moreover the examples are very cleverly chosen. After this you have hell lot of problems of varied difficulties to test yourself. The best point is that hints are given for some important and difficult problems! Only trouble I got during my undergraduate was that I found that this book was a bit to elementry for a bit advanced topics like matrix diagonalization and other things. For that one has to get some other advanced book ....like that by Hoffman. Second deficiency is, probably because this book intends to be mainly a problem book, it doesnt introduce the student to dazling applications (!) of linear algebra ... linear algebra is an extremely nice portion of mathematics and it has equally amazing applications. I feel in undergraduate courses student should get an exposure of its applications also. The best example of that being the Quantum Mechanics. So some science/math students might go for a good quantum mechanics book after going through this excellent problems book. (one on Heisenberg's apporach and not Schroodinger's) Best of Luck Mukul
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Summary: Excellent book !
Review: First of all I would like to clarify that there is one more book in schaum's series on linear algebra by one of these authors and is called '3000 solved problems in linear algebra'. Dont get confused, I havent read that book. This book is an excellent book for both theory and problems. It has numerous solved examples ...and moreover the examples are very cleverly chosen. After this you have hell lot of problems of varied difficulties to test yourself. The best point is that hints are given for some important and difficult problems! Only trouble I got during my undergraduate was that I found that this book was a bit to elementry for a bit advanced topics like matrix diagonalization and other things. For that one has to get some other advanced book ....like that by Hoffman. Second deficiency is, probably because this book intends to be mainly a problem book, it doesnt introduce the student to dazling applications (!) of linear algebra ... linear algebra is an extremely nice portion of mathematics and it has equally amazing applications. I feel in undergraduate courses student should get an exposure of its applications also. The best example of that being the Quantum Mechanics. So some science/math students might go for a good quantum mechanics book after going through this excellent problems book. (one on Heisenberg's apporach and not Schroodinger's) Best of Luck Mukul
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Summary: Very nice book for theory review
Review: I would say that the structure of this book pleased me. I used it as a theory review for my qualifying exam in Linear Algebra. For that purpose it served quite well. It has a nice, constructive structure. It will make your knowledge organized and will not overload you with too much abstractions. Especially I enjoyed the fact that definitions and key theorems are situated separately from their proofs, that allow you to familiarize yourself with theory in general and after you know everything there, you may concentrate on the proofs to make your knowledge more sophisticated. At least this is the way how I did work with this book. As for exercises, they are not very difficult, I would say undergraduate level only, so that it is good for those who has a weak knowledge in this subject. For those who want to go beyond Linear Algebra I would suggest Kostrykin, 3 volumes, but it is in Russian ;-)
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Summary: easy to learn with this book, but too many mistakes
Review: i'm currently taking linear algebra from one of the authors of this book. the first day of class the instructor passed out a corrections sheet for the book. even with the corrections sheet, i found many wrong answers in the answer sections. the pros
- low cost compared to a normal textbook
- easy to understand explanations
- concise
- lots of problems the cons
- many, many wrong answers in the answer key means that you'll spend a lot of time checking your math with a calculator.
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Summary: Well Organized Supplement for College Courses.
Review: I've found the Schaum's Outlines to be extremely helpful in my math and science related college courses. This was no exception. Think of it as a kind of Cliff's Notes if you will. It gives a brief and easily understandable explanation of the main subjects while also providing many common solved examples and shows step by step the process of solution (thereby rectifying a common failing in many texts). It then gives a large number of problems for individual practice. I highly recommend the Schaum's Outlines and in particular any which are written by Dr. Seymour Lipschutz.
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Summary: Excellent Study aid for Grad/Undergrad course
Review: The book is LOADED with examples, and has an excellent index. It supplies the examples that many texts leave out to make way for the theory. I bet that you will find more than one answer to a homework problem in this volume if you are taking either Grad or Undergrad Linear Algebra. It really helps you to find detailed information and solve specific problems.
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Summary: Two many typos and mistakes
Review: The publisher would better republish it. I find hundreds of mistakes in the book.
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Summary: Two many typos and mistakes
Review: This book is an incredible value! It covers all major topics in the field of linear algebra, in fact, many more topics than some more expensive texts. This book has many theorems with proofs as well as example problems and applications. My only complaints about this book are that the coverage of theory is a bit terse, and the proofs to many of the theorems are found in the exercises section at the end of the chapter, rather than immediately after the theorem. The terseness means that, without prior exposure to linear algebra, it would be a bit difficult to teach yourself strictly from this book. But with a little bit of background, this book should be no trouble at all. A "real" textbook would get a lower rating for these types of complaints, but since this book costs less than $13, there is no reason not to get it.
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