It's worth calling out that the video itself doesn't support some of the blunt arguments being made here. The point of the video is that it's likely that everyone does better with a multimodal approach. It thus remains reasonable to seek out books that do a good job with visual representations! No visual components, or, worse, bad diagrams are, according to the video, an impediment to everyone, not just people who have used a disfavored term in their Ask HN question. :)
I like 3Blue1Brown as much as everyone else, it's an achievement and kind of a joy to watch, but my experience was that, after many go-rounds over the years, the thing that made any of this actually stick was doing exercises. I tend to bang the less abstract ones out in Sage: https://www.sagemath.org (you have to do a little bit of extra work to make sure Sage isn't doing too much of the work for you.
I'm a fan of Strang's approach. But I'm bad at linear algebra, so, grain of salt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA&feature=youtu.be
It's worth calling out that the video itself doesn't support some of the blunt arguments being made here. The point of the video is that it's likely that everyone does better with a multimodal approach. It thus remains reasonable to seek out books that do a good job with visual representations! No visual components, or, worse, bad diagrams are, according to the video, an impediment to everyone, not just people who have used a disfavored term in their Ask HN question. :)
I like 3Blue1Brown as much as everyone else, it's an achievement and kind of a joy to watch, but my experience was that, after many go-rounds over the years, the thing that made any of this actually stick was doing exercises. I tend to bang the less abstract ones out in Sage: https://www.sagemath.org (you have to do a little bit of extra work to make sure Sage isn't doing too much of the work for you.
I'm a fan of Strang's approach. But I'm bad at linear algebra, so, grain of salt.