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Summary: Explains Complex material in a simplisic manor
Review: Great book that explains to beiginners, linear Algebra. The author explains all material with examples. A good book and challenging book at the same time.
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Summary: Not the book to buy
Review: I bought the book for a first year course in mathematics. Very unclear, badly structured, and a difficult read. I had to get a second book (Howard Anton) to get insight into some of the areas. I do not recommend this book at all.
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Summary: very elementary, yet still hard to read
Review: I don't know how Kolman managed to do it, but he did. He wrote a very basic linear algebra text book for beginners and yet made his explanations so unclear that the book ends up being hard to read. The topics are the very basics of linear algebra: no canonical forms, no infinite dimensional spaces, the underlying field is always R or C, and everything is done in terms of matrices. The explanations of the concepts that are covered could use some coherence and a dash of order.I wouldn't recommend this book for anyone. It's pretty much garbage.
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Summary: A great linear algebra book
Review: My department recently adopted this book for our regular undergraduate linear algebra course upon the recommendation of a colleague of mine and myself. I am currently teaching from it and am delighted by it. The book is concisely written, with just the right amount of detail to help the student understand the concepts but without sweeping any tricky details under the rug. The topics are arranged in the right order to avoid unnecessary repetition. One can even use an appendix to integrate complex vector spaces fairly easily into the syllabus. A great book!
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Summary: Buy Another Book
Review: This book is required for my Linear Algebra class. Since my professor is not the best lecturer, I've had to buy another book to have any hope at understanding the material. This book gives poor explanations and the examples are not helpful. After looking around, I've found that there are many, many books out there that will make the topic easier to understand.
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Summary: Another garbage book
Review: This text has to be among the worst math books I have ever encountered. The content in the chapters is very vauge and I'd hazard to guess makes sense only to those who already know linear algebra. This book may perhaps be a good refresher book, but as a beginning text it fails miserably. The examples as others have said are not helpful at all nor are the solutions found in the back of the book. Overall, this book is a waste of bookshelf space. Get Anton's book instead and save yourself the trouble.
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Summary: Buy Another Book
Review: This textbook was used for the 1st year algebra course that I took and it gave me a pretty rough time. It's nice because it covers a lot of topics, but it has one weakness: the explanations are very poorly written, and from a student's perspective, they are very difficult to understand. All explanations of the various subjects are accurate, but they seem to be written from a viewpoint which seems to be geared towards not students but those who have already understood the material. Most of my friends taking the same course also felt that this textbook was extremely lacking. Please, if you're a professor, do your students a favour and choose a different algebra textbook than this one!!!
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