INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR ALGEBRA, 3RD EDITION

"This is a pleasant surprise of a math text for higher education in
that the prose isn't dry and the author fills the text with practical
examples and explanations. How many times has the university math or
engineering student read a text that derives one theorem and then
expects the reader to apply it to a multitude of situations with no
extra extrapolation by the author? In Strang's refreshing affront to
modern university texts, he employs a conversational (and
comfortable!) tone to draw the reader in to the subject of Linear
Algebra. I've seen this billed as "Linear Algebra for the non-math
major," but I reject that advertisement--every engineering and math
student should get a nice change of pace with this text.

The text has the necessary solutions to selected (most) exercises,
which make working through the problems much easier, since the student
can get instant feedback about their solutions. Also, on a major plus
side, this book is relatively compact and lightweight compared to
other tomes of higher education."

---From a review on amazon.com, Jessica Lux-Baumann, Rosamond, CA