Hands-On Matrix Algebra Using R

Vinod (Fordham U., US) combines his enthusiasm for matrix algebra and for computer software to get the drudgery out of the way. He assumes readers have no experience of the open-source statistics software R, and he provides some help learning it, but emphasizes that his main goal is to teach matrix algebra. For students at home in the digital world but impatient with tedious manipulations, he explains how to create matrices of any size that satisfy any properties in R with random entries, then check if any alleged matrix theory result is plausible. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)