Around here, the two main courses to master in your first semester are analysis and linear algebra. Usually, except for the real numbers, these two courses have nothing in common. The present textbook does not follow this philosophy and according to the reviews of the first addition this approach was well received. The second edition has been extensively revised plus there is new material on linear programming, extreme points for polyhedra and a Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation problem, the mathematics behind Google, Drazin inverses, band inverses and applications of the singular value decomposition together with several new exercises.
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