Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

A true masterpiece by Axler.

For those of you who wish to really know whats behind those elementary, middle school silliness of matrices truly and understand vectors, use two things:1. This book2. ChatGPTThis book will give you a really solid foundation of:1. Vector and vector spaces2. Linear Maps and matrices3. Eigenvalues and EigenVectorsAnd linear algebra in general. I wish I’d read this book in my elementary - I’d have more interest in math if I did.Remember to really ask questions with your choice of AI - mine is ChatGPT - combining this book with a dialog and doing problems can really clarify a lot of things. Good luck!

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I am a graduate student who studies an area steeped in linear algebra. I have found this book invaluable, particularly the author's hard work on making proofs elegant and readable. I had bought a copy of the third edition previously, but I bought the fourth edition because I greatly appreciate the Axlerization of the tensor product (which I live and breathe) in the last chapter.

Came new and sealed. No complaints!

I own many math and other scholarly books. Books on natural deduction, mathematics (junior college to university), a few on physics. None of them, no matter how old they are or cheap they are (some of my books go back to the 90s, 70s, even 60s, and others are $7-10 printings of open educational resources) is as badly printed as this book. There's another review on here of someone saying that they smudged the print by rubbing it lightly with their finger, and they're absolutely right. Touching the ink on the pages is enough to damage the book irreparably. It doesn't just lift the ink off, it actually spreads the ink around on the page! It's absolutely terrible. Springer's printing has consistently had issues for me, but at least their non-color books (which seem to be almost all the other books in the UTM line) don't have this problem. As a comparison, I took my copy of Stewart Calculus Fourth Edition from like the 90s and vigorously, powerfully rubbed one spot of color ink for a solid few minutes, and there was not even a single noticeable blemish on the page (and I really, really tried to damage it). If you can, buy from any publisher other than Springer, and especially do not buy this book!This was a hard review for me to write, as I support open educational resources, and Axler's book is CC BY-NC licensed. My personal gripes with the "NC" clause aside, this is a free book you can download on the internet which I would love to support in a physical copy! The only reason you'd buy a print copy is if you wanted to support the author and have a physical copy long-term to enjoy, which this printing completely misses the mark on.Next time, instead of having the worst ink of all time, just print it black and white like your other texts please. We'll forgive you.

As much as I’d love to give praise for the book’s content, the quality of the ink is pretty bad. You’ll see markings as seen in the images, just by having your hand holding the pages. The last image I intentionally rubbed it, to placate my curiosity and confirm that it’s that easy to damage the page.

Luego de usarlo una semana empezó a deshojarse. Un desastre, deberían devolverme el dinero.