Applied Linear Algebra

This textbook develops the essential tools of linear algebra, with the goal of imparting technique alongside contextual understanding. Applications go hand-in-hand with theory, each reinforcing and explaining the other. This approach encourages students to develop not only the technical proficiency needed to go on to further study, but an appreciation for when, why, and how the tools of linear algebra can be used across modern applied mathematics. Students may visit the following website to obtain the freely available student solutional manual:  https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~olver/ala.html.  Instructors may apply for the  Lecturer solutions manual here: https://sites.google.com/springernature.com/extramaterial/lecturer-material Providing an extensive treatment of essential topics such as Gaussian elimination, inner products and norms, and eigenvalues and singular values, this text can be used for an in-depth first course, or an application-driven second course in linear algebra. In