Resources
The course site is the primary source of truth for this course, at no cost to students. These open sources support and extend it:
- MIT OpenCourseWare 18.700 Linear Algebra, Fall 2013 (Michael Artin, MIT OpenCourseWare) — open proof based reference. availability and licence not yet confirmed.
- MIT OpenCourseWare 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2010 (Gilbert Strang, MIT OpenCourseWare) — open computational complement. availability and licence not yet confirmed.
- Linear Algebra Done Wrong (Sergei Treil, Department of Mathematics, Brown University) — open abstract text. availability and licence not yet confirmed.
Every reading this course points to is openly available online at no cost, and the unit notes are written to stand on their own. The open proof-based reference is where a student goes for a second treatment of the same theorem, and the computational complement is where the same idea is shown in coordinates. The text named on the department syllabus, Advanced Linear Algebra by Steven Roman, is treated here as an optional reference only: a borrowed or library copy is enough, purchase is never required for anything on this site, no part of it is reproduced or adapted here, and the notes give the optional chapter alignment in words rather than depending on it. Availability and licence are not confirmed for any source listed here.