[mturmon]

I like your bibliography!

Ben Noble's book was my entry to LA. I was an undergraduate and involved in a research activity that demanded a lot of knowledge of the eigenvalue problem. The concrete approach in that book helped a lot.

It was only later on that I took a class based on G&vL (implementing a bunch of basic LA factorizations in Matlab), and in my spare time read Halmos's book. I understand the coordinate-free algebraic approach, but I work on applications and that viewpoint has not stuck with me. The stuff on numerical accuracy in GvL really did stick, OTOH.

From the comments here, and Strang's book's table of contents, I gather that his book (which has a lot of fans) has a concrete geometric approach.

[mturmon]

Self-reply: Here's a comparative review of Noble+Daniel vs. Strang: https://pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/271586/1-s2.0-S002437950...

[srean]

Hey thanks. I am quite surprised to meet a fellow Nobler. I thought I was the only one. I self studied the material and no one in my social circle had read it from Noble.