Gareth Jones Books

This textbook was required for my college linear algebra class. As the linear algebra book for business majors, it has a lot of real-world applications/examples in it, which I appreciated. Having now completed the class when looking back through the book, I can remember how to do the work. When learning it for the first time though, reading the book was a nightmare. Fortunately, I had an excellent professor who explained the examples he was working very well, so I only used the book for homework problems, not for learning the material cold.

I do NOT recommend this book for someone learning about matrices and vectors for the first time.

Just kidding. Reading this book was about as exciting as watching paint dry. Even Dr. Suess was more informative.

Reading this book is about as exciting as watching paint dry. Even Dr. Seuss is more informative. The authors have proved that saying absolutely nothing in 14 chapters is certainly possible.

There are a lot of description in this book is just the author's opinion. And ususlly, the auther's opinion don't showing consistency of reasoning. For example, in page 85, this book tells us that innovation will lead an industry to fragmentation rather than consolidation. How a doubtful theory !! The author doesn't prove it, but just only say it.