About this Text

This is the second edition of Linear Algebra, An Interactive Introduction. The first edition was funded by the Ohio Open Ed Collaborative (OOEC) through the Ohio Department of Higher Education Innovation grant.

This edition contains significant updates to content as well as integration of GeoGebra interactives throughout the narrative.

These materials satisfy the Ohio Transfer Module TAG 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.

Text Website

A PDF version of this text is 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 are grateful to the Ohio Open Ed Collaborative and the Ohio Department of Higher Education for providing initial funding for this project, and to Ohio Dominican University and Lakeland Community College for supporting us through sabbatical leaves.
  • 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.

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.

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License

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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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