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Good recommendations. In addition to the UT, MIT and Stanford courses you recommend above, for developing your visual intuition, 3Blue1Brown's Essence of Linear Algebra video series is second to none. [0]

Another good one is MathTheBeautiful [1] by MIT alum Pavel Grinfeld [2]. He approaches Linear Algebra from a geometric perspective as well, but with more emphasis on the mechanics of solving equations. He has a ton of videos organized into several courses, ranging from in-depth Intro to Linear Algebra courses to more advanced courses on PDEs and Tensor Calculus.

Esp note his video on Legendre polynomials [3] and Why {1,x,x²} Is a Terrible Basis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYoGYQOXqTk&index=14&list=PL....

Gilbert Strang was Greenfield's PhD advisor: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/29345. Pavel has a clear and precise teaching style like Strang, and he makes reference to Prof's Strang and his MIT course from time to time.

NB: Prof Strang has a new book Linear Algebra and Learning from Data that just went to press and will be available in print by mid Jan 2019. A few chapters are available online now, and the video lectures from the new MIT course should on YouTube in a few weeks. [4]

[0] Essence of Linear Video Series (3Blue1Brown): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw/pla...

[1] MathTheBeautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYoGYQOXqTk&index=14&list=PL

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Grinfeld

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre_polynomials

[4] MIT Linear Algebra and Learning from Data (2018) http://math.mit.edu/~gs/learningfromdata/



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