Introduction to Linear Algebra 5th Fifth Edition by Gilbert Strang
ISBN-13: 9780980232776
ISBN-10: 0980232775
Preface
I am happy for you to see this Fifth Edition of Introduction to Linear Algebra.
This is the text for my video lectures on MIT?s OpenCourseWare (ocw.mit.edu and
also YouTube). I hope those lectures will be useful to you (maybe even enjoyable!).
Hundreds of coll??ges and universities have chosen this textbook for their basic linear
algebra course. A sabbatical gave me a chance to prepare two new chapters about
probability and statistics and understanding data. Thousands of other improvements tooprobably
only noticed by the author. . . Here is a new addition for students and all readers:
Every section opens with a brief summary to explain its contents. When you
read a new section, and when you revisit a section to review and organize
it in your mind, those lines are a quick guide and an aid to memory.
Another big change comes on this book?s website math.mit.edu/linearalgebra. That site
now contains solutions to the Problem Sets in the book. With unlimited space, this is
much more flexible than printing short solutions. There are three key websites :
ocw.mit.edu Messages come from thousands of students and faculty about linear algebra
on this OpenCourseWare site. The 18.06 and 18.06 SC courses include video lectures of
a complete semester of classes. Those lectures offer an independent review of the whole
subject based on this textbook-the professor?s time stays free and the student?s time can
be 2 a.m. (The reader doesn?t have to be in a class at all.) Six million viewers around the
world have seen these videos (amazing). I hope you find them helpful.
web.mit.edu/18.06 This site has homeworks and exams (with solutions) for the current
course as it is taught, and as far back as 1996. There are also review questions, Java demos,
Teaching Codes, and short essays (and the video lectures). My goal is to make this book
as useful to you as possible, with all the course material we can provide.
