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The course is taught by Gilbert Strang, who has written an excellent introductory textbook on the subject:

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Linear-Algebra-Fourth-Gil...

Strang has another great book, Linear Algebra and its Applications: http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Applications-Gilbert-St... Everything I know about linear algebra I learned from this book.

Seconded. I'm an applied math PhD student (optimization) and I use linear algebra constantly. This book taught me everything.

Thirded. We used an earlier edition at my school for Linear Algebra, and in spite of having a Professor who was retiring at the end of the class (complete with "I'm getting too old for this shit" demeanor), the book was approachable enough for us to get by.

A slightly more advance books which I love is: Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra by Carl Meyer. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0898714540

You can find a free PDF version online.

I like it more then Strang because it's a lot more concise, covers some more advanced topics and unlike Strang everything is said very accurately. I think Strang's rather hand-wavy way of explaining things starts faltering when he talks about more advance topics.

I would read Strang and listen to his lectures to get a good feel for Linear Algebra (to build up the intuition), and if you feel like you want more then pick up Meyer's book

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