In the world of mathematics and engineering education, few names command as much respect as Professor Gilbert Strang. For decades, his course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been the gold standard for learning Linear Algebra—a subject that serves as the bedrock of modern data science, machine learning, physics, and engineering.
: Strang devotes three full lectures to the SVD. His lecture notes on this topic are worth the price of admission alone. No other introductory text explains SVD as intuitively. lecture notes for linear algebra gilbert strang