Bernard Kolman (1932–2018)

This book is trash, using any of the free linear algebra textbook pdfs available online would be better than trying to learn anything from it.

Reasonable explanations. lots of applications sprinkled through out and many examples - this can be good or bad depending on how terse you like things - the formatting makes it easy to gloss over unneeded examples though.

exercises are good and numerous but only odd solutions are provided (and none for theoretical ones so far ) and many are wrong in the 6th edition I have. Perhaps the newer editions are better about this but it can be irritating.

I was a TA for linear algebra this semester, and this was the assigned book. As always, for engineers this book is written way too much for mathematicians. The examples were lacking and there were definite typos, that I found very misleading and confusing at times when trying to teach fundamental topics. I've never found a solid linear algebra book I've liked.

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