I passed the class just because of how good the book is.

i literally threw this book in the trash cause it was too dense and pretentious.

This is a holy book for a lot of game developers.

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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.

My bag of tricks is better than your bag of tricks. Alright.

As with most textbooks, it fails to motivate why reading it is worth the investment. Perhaps it is a millennial old tradition of the Greek mystery schools, that the rite of passage came by proving your commitment to material knowledge without anything but fate in the school itself as motivation.

Rigor before Worth.

(Yes this is a pet peeve of mine :)

These days, linear algebra done right should be accompanied with some CAS to view how algorithms are used.

Possibly paired with some numerical algebra free text (many on the Internet)

Do not get the latest edition, the layout and typesetting is atrocious!

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