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Title: Some good moments, but mostly confusing
Review: There is nothing wrong with an introductory text that uses little math to explain math. I have a feeling that the author was trying to do just that in this book. The problem is that he does not have the communication skills to do this successfully. What should be a simple explanation is made so convoluted that you have to read it several times to realize that it is a really bad explanation of something very simple. Most of my reading time was spent trying to guess what the author had in mind when he strung these incoherent sentences together. The book never "takes off." It just keeps circling in the runway. You'll never see any of the alleged beauty of linear algebra in this book.
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