At my university in the U.K. we called the kind of linear algebra that computer scientists do “vectors and matrices.” It involved grids of numbers and maybe thi

At my university in the U.K. we called the kind of linear algebra that computer scientists do “vectors and matrices.” It involved grids of numbers and maybe things like decompositions and eigenvalues/vectors. Computer scientists might get to go into topics like numerical stability or decomposition that are useful for computation. These have lots of practical uses and are relevant to topics like graph theory or Markov chains. The thing we called “linear algebra” involved linear maps and vector spaces and bases and dual spaces and no grids of numbers.