# Elementary Linear Algebra with Applications 9th or 10th edition?

I am about to start a mathematics degree and one of the textbooks I have been advised to get is Elementary Linear Algebra with Applications (10th edition) by Howard Anton & Chris Rorres. This book costs about $130 however I have found the 9th edition of the same book for far less. If anyone is familiar with this book, I am wondering what difference there is between the 9th and 10th editions and will the 9th edition still suffice? Thanks. ## Answers and Replies Unless it is required by your course in that they are going to quote page and example numbers I doubt there is that many$ worth of advantage.

My 7th edition, which I am not going to trade up any time soon, cost £27 and is a hardback. I would guess the $price in the States would have been$27, that was the usual conversion.

Is there not a cheaper paperback version?

All that said both the applications version and the version without applications are very good books indeed and heartily recommended.

From what I know the chapters got reorganized in the 10th edition. So if all you are given are chapters to read then you will problably have some problems. I had anyway ;(

Please I need the Visual Basic algorithm for computing Hermite polynomials.
Thank you very much.