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Here is another [1]--perhaps not to everyone's taste, but it was influential for me. In particular, the first words of the preface: "The underlying spirit of th

Here is another [1]--perhaps not to everyone's taste, but it was influential for me. In particular, the first words of the preface: "The underlying spirit of this treatment of the theory of matrices is that of a concept and its representation." [1] https://archive.org/details/LinearAlgebraAndMatrixTheory https://archive.org/details/LinearAlgebraAndMatrixTheory

thanatropism 8y ago
My own take is that the "theory of matrices" (not a standard usage but should be) is worth learning for some (sp if you're going into hardcore numerics like stability of algorithms) but not for everyone. It's like studying calculus as the theory of smooth curves -- it robs you of some potential for growth. Also: some people just want "math for deep learning" and that's mostly baby calculus: the chain rule and gradient descent.