No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra

https://minireference.gumroad.com/l/noBSLA The author is also on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ivan_ah

Second to No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra. It's well written, has plenty of practice problems, and an interesting applications section.

Personally I liked the No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra. It kind of builds up things slowly and in a conversational manner, but you can also skip thru pretty quickly if you just need a reference. I don't think I've been able to find any particularly good visual LinAlg books - most of what you're trying to achieve is actually quite abstract and I found the classic books a little confusing. As an addendum - if you live stateside, classes at community colleges may be quite inexpensive and fairly approachable.

Recently, I've been reading this mega book that covers a lot of advanced topics in math by Kolmogorov et al. It is nice because it covers a lot of topics w/o in a fairly short text --- it is a brick but it covers 2000 years of knowledge! http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Content-Methods-Meaning-Do... (http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Content-Methods-Meaning-Dover/dp/0486409163) For first-year stuff, I would recommend No bullshit guide to math and physics[1] and the No bullshit guide to linear algebra[2] of which I am the author. [1] http://minireference.com/ [2] http://gum.co/noBSLA