A First Course in Linear Algebra

The linear algebra textbook with freedom

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Here you can obtain copies of the book and the underlying TeX source code. The versions here are almost all in PDF format, some for on-screen viewing, and others for printing. There is an online XML/MathML version, which is also available below as a tarball so you can grab it for local viewing without a network connection.

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