beezer @ AIMS

• A First Course in Linear Algebra (Beezer) - GFDL, licensed to copy with attribution [Site]
• Linear Algebra (Hefferon) - Creative Commons, licensed to copy with attribution [Site]
• Numerical Analysis (Pav) - GFDL, licensed to copy with attribution [Source]
• Linear Algebra (Woodruff) - Creative Commons, licensed to copy with attribution [Source]
• The Matrix Cookbook (Petersen, Pedersen) - apparently free to copy, but not to sell [Site]
• Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra (Meyer) - extremely restrictive download terms [Site]
• Matrix Computations (Golub, Van Loan). A classic. AIMS Library @ QA 297.G65X

• Joseph Khoury's Applications [English] [French]
• Ali A. Dad-del's Applications [Site]
• Roger Kraft's Internet Links [Site]
• British Columbia Inst. Tech. Applications (use linear algebra column) [Site]
• Todd Will's Singular Value Decomposition Pages [SVD] [Least Squares and SVD (needs Java)]

I maintain a list of open textbooks appropriate for a university mathematics curriculum. These have varying degrees of freedom, but are at a minimum free to download for personal use.

Open Mathematics Textbooks

The Sage PREP course was given to 25 university teachers in Summer 2010, to teach them Sage, assuming they had no experience. A number of tutorials, as Sage worksheets, were written for the course.

Click once to get to a download page, then click on the big DOWNLOAD link to save a copy to your storage at AIMS. Then use the Sage "upload" function in the notebook to add it to your collection of worksheets.

Sage PREP Tutorials

The Sage Book is an excellent introduction to how to use Sage in a variety of areas of mathematics. The PDF version should be considered the most accurate.

However, I have made a version where each chapter is a Sage worksheet. Links in the table of contents do not work yet, so you should just open the worksheet for each individual chapter. The Sage notebook will accept the entire zip file in the "Upload" dialog and will split out the worksheets. To move these worksheets into your Sage notebook, first make a local copy by dowloading from this link. Then use the Sage notebook "Upload" page and browse to the copy you just made. You do not need to "unzip" the file, and it can be safely deleted after you upload it into the notebook.

This is a video of a linear algebra tutorial I gave in May 2009 for a Sage Days event. Be sure to use the AIMS internal link if you are inside AIMS. The web player version is partway down the page and is best if you are outiside AIMS with a good connection.

AIMS Internal Version (MPEG file)
External web player version
Worksheet to accompany presentation

The Sage Linear Algebra Quick Reference is handy thing to have printed out. I'll try to have color copies for the first day of class for everybody, so don't print your own copy.

• Dive into Python - introductory Python book (GFDL license)

• Sage