Comments on: Poor man’s linear algebra textbook

By: Khairul

Khairul — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 04:14:38 +0000

I like Carl Meyer's book: Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra

By: Dean Eckles

Dean Eckles — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:03:55 +0000

I’ve got Strang’s text also. I find it a bit too quirky and conversational to be ideal for reference. But it does have a broader range than Trefethen & Bau.

Would be interested to know what some of the typos in T&B are… I don’t doubt there are, but would like to fix them in my copy. I can’t find any errata online.

By: brendano

brendano — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:59:24 +0000

Strang has multiple votes.

By: Bob Carpenter

Bob Carpenter — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:52:44 +0000

You could do a lot worse than Gilbert Strang’s classic text. His lectures from 1999 are online, too:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/video-lectures/

I have a friend who taught from Trefethen and Bau III last semester. He thought the book was a mixed blessing, being equally full of insight and typos.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:05:33 +0000

I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of Golub and Van Loan (mostly the perturbation results). I’ve heard good things about Horn and Johnson.

By: Dean Eckles

Dean Eckles — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:57:59 +0000

I liked Trefethen and Bau’s Numerical Linear Algebra. I used it for Math 104 at Stanford, though we only covered part of the book. Doesn’t have everything, but most of what seems to matter for statistics. I like the treatment of the SVD and QR factorization.

The first 5 lectures are here for sampling: http://www.amath.washington.edu/courses/584-autumn-2007/handouts/

By: Fred Mailhot

Fred Mailhot — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:09:05 +0000

Sam Roweis (RIP) had some useful stuff:

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~roweis/notes.html

By: brendano

brendano — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:21:36 +0000

You mean this? http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee263/support.html

I like “crimes against matrices.”

This definitely looks like more of the right sort of thing than his convex optimization book/course…

By: Joanna

Joanna — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:12:37 +0000

I *loved* EE263, which has a course textbook (not a real book, but rather the sort of thing that is printed at Kinko’s). But perhaps you have equivalent or more advanced material in whatever else you have from Boyd.