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Linear algebra is an increasingly important part of any curriculum in mathematics in our days. The subject is covered by a great number of excellent (classical and recent) textbooks and monographs. However, a well-organized problem book, like this, will surely by welcomed by students as well as by instructors. The 200 ``challenging problems'' collected by the author comprehend almost the whole spectrum of an undergraduate or first-year graduate course. The chapter headings of the first part run as follows: Vector spaces -- Determinants, inverses, rank, and Linear equations -- Matrices, linear transformations, and eigenvalues -- Special matrices -- Inner product spaces. The degree of difficulty of the problems is varying, ranging from quite straightforward to fairly hard. In my opinion most of them can be successfully attacked by an ambitious student. In any case, the ``Hints and solutions'' in the second part of the book provide the sufficient help. In all, this is a very useful book.