Tips on using Lay's Linear Algebra textbook

You should read the author's Note to Students following the preface; this has some excellent advice. For example, "You must avoid the temptation to look at ... answers [in the back of the book] until you have tried to write out the solution yourself. Otherwise, you are likely to think you understand something when in fact you do not ."
At the end of each section are "Practice Problems". You should try these and then compare your answers to the solutions that appear after the list of exercises for that section.

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