[.ca] Linear Algebra (ISBN 0201526751)

Not the best for beginners, but still good:
After giving up on this book when I first learned Linear Algebra, it has turned out to be a very good reference book on the subject. If you need to, use Anton's book to learn the subject, but I keep this one on my shelf.

Not easy to understand:
I do not find the book suitable for an introductory course in linear algebra. It takes too much time to get through a page in this book due to the use of heavy mathematical language. The examples are not enough to help a student solve the exercices at the end of the book, so often times one has to always rely on the TA office hours to get a homework done. I do not recommend buying this text for a beginner in linear algebra, unless if it's required text for a course.

For beginners!:
For a biginner, many famous textbooks(Fridberg's or Leon's or etc.)are too diffcult and focus on high density of theory rather than caculation problems. Examples of this book help me a lot to know Linear Algebra. We could use this as our first text book of Linear Algebra. After we are familiar with Linear Algebra, we could get another textbook.

Complicated and hard to understand:
While it may be good for advanced math people, this book is definitely no good for the students who haven't learned linear algebra before. The texts are really hard to follow and most examples are written 50% in math symbols. Understanding concepts is quite impossible, at least for those who haven't studied linear before. I really dont understand why most schools still use this book as a text. This is my honest review as a student who took this class and as a representative of many other students who had the similar opinions about this book.

Absolutely Brutal:
I've recently had the misfortune of having this book as my text for an introductory linear algebra book. The subject can be hard enough to understand on its own, but this book makes it even worse. The examples are sparse at best, and most of the time are wasted by displaying the proof of a cryptic concept instead of actually assisting to answer the questions in the book. Even worse, when the book does provide a practical example, it often only shows the steps used to complete the problem, not even bothering to explain it! If you are stuck with this book as a course text, I would highly recommend finding a second, more useful book if you wish to get more than a passing grade.