Matrices become captivating when you try to do almost any kind of engineering thing in the real world. Like building a graphics or physics engine, or calculati

Matrices become captivating when you try to do almost any kind of engineering thing in the real world. Like building a graphics or physics engine, or calculating the Page Rank of a web page, etc'. If you can program, I recommend trying to build a 2D graphics and physics engine using vectors to represent position and velocity. Also, Steven Wittens is amazing: http://acko.net/tv/webglmath/ http://acko.net/tv/webglmath/