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Title: Jumps around and Lacks important information
Review: I think David C. Lay does not try to help the student with this book. Instead, he wants the student to work for the solution. This is fine some of the time, but not all of the time. I think this book was written from a perspective that most students already know what he is talking about. The examples are inadequate for the problems in the book and the solutions guide always says something really helpful like, "Look in your textbook for the answer". I like Linear Algebra, but I don't like getting the run around when I get lost. I am using Elementary Linear Algebra by Ron Larson and Bruce Edwards as a supplementary text and it will be the book that I keep after the course is over. On the other hand, Lay's book is going back to the campus bookstore.
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