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It depends on your desired emphasis -- theoretical or computational?

From a more theoretical angle, Jim Hefferon has written an outstanding introductory book. It is free and open source, available with loads of supplementary material, here:

https://hefferon.net/source.html

From a computational perspective, I've heard good things about Gilbert Strang's book, although I haven't read it personally. User superbcarrot linked to his MIT course materials, including video lectures.

One word of caution though: as a mathematics educator, I don't endorse "efficiency" as a goal. When I have pursued this goal myself, I have generally regretted it, and decided in retrospect that I was largely wasting my time.

To really learn math you should: do a ton of exercises, come up with your own questions and try to answer them, be willing to explore blind alleys.

Good luck!



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