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  • In a computer science context, I have to plug the old FLAME group for publishing and teaching the topic so well. - digging into parallelizing computations efficiently before neural nets took off around the 2014 time.

    LibFlame has long been abandoned now but their courses were very strong when you had access to the professors. They have been rebranded as the Science of High Performance Computing (SHPC) group.

    https://github.com/flame/libflame

    https://shpc.oden.utexas.edu/

    by throwaway902984
  • Overrated and tendentious book. There are many better linear algebra texts. His polemic against determinants is poorly motivated, misguided, and distracting. The writing is quite formal and not terribly inspiring. The coverage is adequate but nothing more.
    by contubernio
  • When it's described in plain English [0], with lots and lots of examples, that's when I call it done right.

    This is the best I know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnfh8jNqBlg&list=PLlXfTHzgMR....

    [0] I meant natural language

    by penguin_booze
  • For those who find Linear Algebra Done Right too much to start with, and those who don't get why Strang starts with matrices, I can't recommend more "The dark art of linear algebra" read this first. With this you can then tackle every other book on the topic more easily
    by hollowturtle
  • This is supposedly based on Sheldon Axler's earlier and shorter paper "Down With Determinants!" [0]. I lectured mathematics for a while at a "former polytechnic" and used to enjoy leaving print-outs of this sort of paper in the faculty communal areas.

    [0] https://www.axler.net/DwD.html

    by n4r9
  • Previously on Hacker News:

    Linear Algebra Done Right 58 points, July 2023, 4 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36576114

    Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition, 631 points, Oct 2023, 294 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38060159

    Linear Algebra Done Right [pdf], 85 points, Sept 2024, 39 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41416799

    by emil-lp
  • Note that "done right" means done with Axler's completely subjective and unusual hatred of determinants, chronicled here [0]. It is in no way "done right" in some definitive, rigorous way; most math professors I have spoken to either strongly disagree with the presentation or have no particular preference.

    [0] https://www.axler.net/DwD.html

    by traes
  • Last night I was looking into what to read after or along with 3Blue1Brown's series of Linear algebra videos [1]

    The contenders seems to be:

    - Linear Algebra Done Right - Sheldon Axler

    - Liner Algebra Done Wrong - Sergei Treil

    - Introduction to Linea Algebra - Gilbert Strang

    - Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe

    [1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...

    by wodenokoto

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