About this Project

About this Text

This is the third edition of Linear Algebra, An Interactive Introduction. The first edition (2018) was funded by the Ohio Open Ed Collaborative (OOEC) through the Ohio Department of Higher Education Innovation grant. The second edition (2023) was made possible by Fall 2022 sabbatical leaves granted to Anna Davis and Paul Zachlin by Ohio Dominican University, and Lakeland Community College, respectively.

This edition contains significant updates to content, as well as formative assessments. We have added different types of chapter review exercises, Octave exercises, and included an Octave tutorial with links to sample code. This phase of the project was funded by the Ximera Project through the Open Textbook Pilot Program grant (2024-2026).

We have taken care to ensure these materials satisfy the Ohio Transfer Assurance Guidelines for a first course in Linear Algebra, as well as the recommendations for a first course in linear algebra made by The Linear Algebra Curriculum Study Group (LACSG 2.0).

Authors

Anna Davis, Ohio Dominican University
davisa@ohiodominican.edu

Paul Zachlin, Lakeland Community College
pzachlin@lakelandcc.edu

With contributions from Rosemarie Emanuele of Ursuline College, and Paul Bender of Ohio Dominican University.

Textbook Website

A PDF version of this text, as well as links to previous editions of the text are available on our website https://sites.google.com/view/lin-alg-interactive-intro/. The website also includes links to student and instructor surveys, as well as an errata form.

Acknowledgements

  • We would like to thank our reviewers Jim Fowler of Ohio State University and Jim Cottrill of Ohio Dominican University for their thoughtful comments and suggestions regarding the first edition.
  • This project would not have been possible without the XIMERA platform. Many thanks go to Bart Snapp and Jim Fowler of Ohio State University for their continued guidance and support.
  • We would also like to thank Wim Obbels of KU Leuven, Belgium, for sharing his expertise in formatting and deploying Ximera documents.
  • We are also grateful to Steven Valvoda for his careful reading and editing.
  • Our inspiration and some of our content came from other open textbooks. We would like to thank Keith Nicholson and Ken Kuttler for making their texts available under a Creative Commons license. Since one of the authors taught Linear Algebra using the excellent book by David Poole for fifteen years, that text has most certainly influenced our work as well.
  • Funding and support for this project was generously provided by
    • Ohio Open Ed Collaborative through the Ohio Department of Higher Education Innovation grant (2017-2018).
    • Ohio Dominican University, and Lakeland Community College through author sabbatical leaves (2022).
    • The Ximera Project through the US Department of Higher Ed Open Textbook Pilot Program (2024-present).

Bibliography

Ken Kuttler, A First Course in Linear Algebra, Lyryx 2017, Open Edition. (CC-BY)

W. Keith Nicholson, Linear Algebra with Applications, Lyryx 2018, Open Edition. (CC-BY-NC-SA)

David Poole, Linear Algebra, A Modern Introduction, 4th Edition, Cengage Learning, 2015.

Questions and Comments

For questions and comments about the content, please contact the authors.

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For anonymous feedback, and to report errata, please visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/lin-alg-interactive-intro/.

License

This work is published under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.

Cover photo: Calatrava’s beautiful structure at Guillemins railway station, Liege, Belgium by By Elena Tatiana Chis - Own work, CC-BY-SA 4.0.

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