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This new textbook covers the usual topics in a linear algebra course in the first or second year in college. It also treats applications to linear differential equations. As remarked in the introduction, most of the material was extracted from the author's textbook on `Calculus' (1967; Zbl 0148.28201) with some topics being revised or rearranged and new material and new exercises added. The book is very well and clearly written. Many exercises of different degrees of difficulty are given, the solutions of some of them can be found at the end. To give an impression of the content, here we give the headlines of the chapters: Ch. 0: Review of prerequisities; Ch. 1: Vector algebra; Ch. 2: Applications of vector algebra to analytic geometry; Ch. 3: Linear spaces; Ch. 4: Linear transformations and matrices; Ch. 5: Determinants; Ch. 6: Eigenvalues and eigenvectors; Ch. 7: Eigenvalues of operators acting on Euclidean spaces; Ch. 8: Applications to linear differential equations; Ch. 9: Applications to systems of differential equations; Ch. 10: The method of successive approximations.