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Anyone have a suggestion for a good online course in linear algebra?



Yes, UIUC offers very good online math courses: https://netmath.illinois.edu/college/math-415. There is also a more pure/abstract version of that course available.

If you don’t care about accreditation and are patient, sit down with Axler’s Linear Algebra Done Right and Hoffman & Kunze’s Linear Algebra, in that order.

I would caution you against trying to learn linear algebra using a “take what you need” approach. A random walk approach to learning the material is faster than an accumulation approach, but it’s more brittle and prone to confusion. A lot of things which appear to be irrelevant or unnecessary for machine learning (computation or research) can be imperative for understanding or implementing much more complex concepts later on.


Thank you! I am interested in the knowledge rather than the credits, so I appreciate the book recommendations :)


The video lectures of Prof. Gilbert Strang’s linear algebra class at MIT are very good: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...

He's an amazing teacher and conveys a lot of intuition + makes even complicated ideas look straightforward.


Awesome resource, thank you!


I like "Coding the Matrix" by Philip Klein of Brown delivered via Coursera. It's a deep content intro to linear algebra (and more), with a focus on applications in computer science. The course is accompanied by a textbook written by Klein, which makes the course material better organized and more in-depth than slides and videos alone would allow.

http://codingthematrix.com/


Thank you, this looks great :)




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