Includes bibliographical references and index.

This textbook is intended for a first linear algebra course. It includes all essential topics in a concise manner and can therefore be fully covered in a one term course. After this course, the student is fully equipped to specialise further in their direction(s) of choice (advanced pure linear algebra, numerical linear algebra, optimisation, multivariate statistics, or one of the many other areas of linear algebra applications)."-- Provided by the publisher