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I want to self study LA and I have 2 options for open courseware: MIT and khanacademy. Which one do you guys think is more thorough and would you recommend for a beginner? Of course, I also have books on the subject but I want to use one of these 2 for my study too, I don't know which one though, but seem good, I am leaning towards khanacademy, but not sure..

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The MIT OCW (if it's Strang) is nice, but is more geared to engineers, focusing on matrix mechanics.

Although this is useful, if you are interested in a more rigorous, math treatment that will also be subsequently quite useful in further studies of algebra, I would recommend these two courses.

They both use "Linear Algebra Done Right" which (despite it's awful title) is widely used in math programs. These two websites generously offer a great deal of very helpful material.

http://math.mit.edu/~trasched/18.700.f11/index.html

http://math.berkeley.edu/~mhaiman/math110-spring12/

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I am awaiting January entry in a advanced linear math. I have been using both, Khan's academy I think would be the way to go the videos are very instructive. The MIT course might be more weighty.