I want to learn statistics and data mining
jimbokun: The Strang book is pretty much indispensable, I think.http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Applications-Gilbert-St...The course lectures are online, too.http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/Video...I've been taking courses related to Machine Learning, and never having taken a Linear Algebra course, I find myself going to this text and watching these lectures a lot to bring myself up to speed.