This textbook focuses only on topics needed for success in calculus. Thus the book can afford to treat key concepts leisurely and in depth, even though the book is about half the size of the typical thousand-page tome.
Written by a recipient of a Mathematical Association of America award in expository writing, this book is designed to be read by students. It contains the student solutions manual with complete worked-out solutions to all odd-numbered exercises, written by the author to ensure consistency and the same high-quality standards as the rest of the text.
As with the author's widely-adopted linear algebra textbook, this book features clear explanations of the main ideas. For example, area is presented from a perspective that will prepare students for integral calculus, and the book gives an unusually well-motivated introduction to e. Inverse functions are used as a unifying concept to define x1/m, logb x, and the inverse trigonometric functions.
Published by Wiley, the book comes with the WileyPLUS online learning system, which provides online homework grading that gives students instant feedback while keeping records for instructors.
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a tour de force in the service of simplicity and clarity ... The most original linear algebra book to appear in years, it certainly belongs in every undergraduate library.
Choice
elegant and intuitive
American Mathematical Monthly
Clarity through examples is emphasized ... I congratulate the author and the publisher for a well-produced textbook on linear algebra.
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