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Can anyone who has seen the book comment on how good it is?

There are just two reviews on Amazon, one 5* and one 1. The 1 said "The book resembles a set of somewhat incomplete and somewhat disorganized lecture notes prepared by a course instructor as a rough outline of the content of his course."

That put me off buying it. So more data points would be helpful!

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I have the book and I wish I didn’t buy (it’s an expensive book). You need to be already pretty good with Linear algebra and most of the material looked like cliff notes of various linear algebra and continuous optimization topics. I still plan to go through it but mildly disappointed.

Would you recommend to get "Introduction to Linear Algebra, Fifth Edition" by Dr. Strang instead?

It’s a good book and actually serves as a good intro to this book. For Starngs learning from data book, you also need to know some convex optimization (not the difficult). Good luck!

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