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Preface Preface
These notes are meant for a specific audience, namely the students in MTH 406 taught at Grand Valley State University in Winter 2025. Nevertheless, they are publicly available on the web, and anyone can use them in whatever way they wish.
This course is a third-semester course in linear algebra, where the first two semesters cover the content in
Understanding Linear Algebra . Our aim will be to generalize some of that content by introducing vector spaces and to provide a more rigorous underpinning for some of the essential results we saw earlier.
