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    Hi, would anyone mind linking me text based resources for LinAlg that have worked well for them? I understand that there are very helpful youtube videos, but I like reading a bit better, and I can do it on my commute.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sin View Post
    Hi, would anyone mind linking me text based resources for LinAlg that have worked well for them? I understand that there are very helpful youtube videos, but I like reading a bit better, and I can do it on my commute.

    Thanks
    I know you said text, but I don't have any digital manuals. If I have anything, it's all portuguese hand written.
    I don't know if you know Bucky, the youtuber that makes tutorial for almost everything. He has a math section. You could always take a look

    https://www.thenewboston.com/videos_math.php

    I never read anything. I always did exercises. Cheers! https://www.thenewboston.com/videos_math.php

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    Are you trying to self teach or taking a course? There really are no "tricks" to linear algebra, so if you have a good text for your course, you probably won't find any information elsewhere that is not already present.

    Aside from that:

    MIT open courseware has a few linear algebra courses with video lectures and lecture summaries for reading on the go: ocw.mit.edu

    This pdf covers just about all the fundamentals: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~linear/linear.pdf

    When I was a college student, I read lecture notes from some random Chinese guy's website that were pretty good, but it appears he has taken them down. I'll see if I still have the files.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flakazoid View Post
    Are you trying to self teach or taking a course? There really are no "tricks" to linear algebra, so if you have a good text for your course, you probably won't find any information elsewhere that is not already present.

    Aside from that:

    MIT open courseware has a few linear algebra courses with video lectures and lecture summaries for reading on the go: ocw.mit.edu

    This pdf covers just about all the fundamentals: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~linear/linear.pdf

    When I was a college student, I read lecture notes from some random Chinese guy's website that were pretty good, but it appears he has taken them down. I'll see if I still have the files.
    I don't have the text yet, I have ~2 weeks till my course starts so I just wanted to get a head start on the concepts.
    Thanks for the pdf, i'll definitely take a look!

    Quote Originally Posted by onilika View Post
    I know you said text, but I don't have any digital manuals. If I have anything, it's all portuguese hand written.
    I don't know if you know Bucky, the youtuber that makes tutorial for almost everything. He has a math section. You could always take a look

    https://www.thenewboston.com/videos_math.php

    I never read anything. I always did exercises. Cheers! https://www.thenewboston.com/videos_math.php

    edit: if not helpful, shout so I can delete the post
    I didn't know TNB taught LinAlg too, thanks

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    Youtube is where i learned most of the math related to compsci/se.

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    I can't begin to describe how much this playlist helped me with matrices:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...5D2252574274C5

    Also this cheat sheet for studying: https://spoonfeedme.com.au/course/14...bra/cheatsheet
    You have to register to get the full pdf, but its free.

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    Pretty irrelevant now since I had to change my schedule and will only be taking LinAlg next year.
    Thanks everyone for their input.

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