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Applied linear algebra is such a great idea. Linear algebra is relatively easy to understand and used everywhere. But the material is so damn boring since it's
by syntaxing 8y ago
Applied linear algebra is such a great idea. Linear algebra is relatively easy to understand and used everywhere. But the material is so damn boring since it's a lot of arthimetic. Even the homework problem is boring since there is no specific purpose.
- cultus 8y agoTypical LA courses in math departments have a bizarre focus on being able to do Gaussian elimination by hand and stuff like that. It's not particularly useful or even mathematically interesting. LA courses would be so much more useful if they just stuck to theory and only had computer applications.
- all2 8y agoI found knowing the mechanics of Gaussian elimination to be really helpful when learning about algorithms like SVD or using Householder transformations. Knowing how the matrices became triangularized gave me something to hang the new information on.