Ask HN: Best beginner friendly linear algebra book?

"Linear Algebra Done Right" is a great second book, I wouldn't use it as a first source of learning Linear Algebra.

"Linear Algebra done right" by Sheldon Axler.

Once determinants have been banished to the end of the book

https://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/book.html

I love Artin’s Algebra. It introduces the matrix determinant early and uses it as the prototypical example of a group homomorphism

https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/

Linear and Geometric Algebra, by Alan MacDonald.

Alan Macdonald Linear and Geometric Algebra

"Linear and Geometric Algebra" by Alan Macdonald.

Pair it with Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares by Boyd and Vandenberghe

https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/

Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares

https://minireference.gumroad.com/l/noBSLA

Second to No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra.

Personally I liked the No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra.

read Basic Mathematics by Lang. Covers all precalculus you need in a rigorous way.

I've found the "_ for Dummies" series to be quite clear for math.

“Introduction to Linear Algebra” by Gilbert Strang is the book.

That is really a wonderful book which I perused when learning linear algebra

I enjoyed Linear Algebra Done Wrong

A book like Trefethen and Bau is great on that latter subject but is not a good starting point for OP.

https://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Linear-Algebra-Lloyd-Trefet... that book, i think, is fantastic.