Is this the LA version of "Calculus made easy"? Because I love that one.<p>I hope I am not getting downvoted to hell but I always thought Strang was overhyped. I watched his lectures and bought his book and I never felt this is the most accessible way of teaching LA. At least not in the way, people hyped it up to be.<p>I much prefer Jim Hefferon's LA book for example. No hate towards Strang but I always felt so dumb when I watched or read his stuff after people were raving about it.
Gilbert Strang is perhaps the greatest educator alive today, on par with Edward Tufte and Malcolm Gladwell. His incredible video lectures have enabled millions to shed their fear of math, discover linear algebra, and pursue careers in machine learning and data science. I often wonder what makes universities keep teaching linear algebra and other math classes when they can just turn their students on to Dr. Gilbert Strang's video lectures.
Linear algebra was like 11 and 1/2 grade math. First semester junior year in high school was trig; second srmester was discrete math.<p>(I took these in 9th grade)