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Nice! I've been meaning to check out "Linear algebra done right" for a while

Sadly this is the latest (3rd) edition. IMHO they ruined the beautiful typesetting typical of Springer math books with tons of super distracting boxes.

I guess the book is a victim of its own popularity, as other books such as Abbott still keep their old look.

My 2 favorite linear algebra books now have broken typesetting. Halmos is too antique, and would benefit greatly from modern LaTeX. Axler is now too flashy.

I agree with this! I prefer reading Axler's 2nd edition because it is a lot less distracting.

I did not know that the 2nd edition of the book is typeset in a simple black and white style. Thank you for sharing!

Don't know if I'm the only one with that pet peeve, but a textbook with ugly superfluous boxes is almost reason enough for me to drop it right away. Reminds me too much of all my terrible high school textbooks.

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