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Understanding Linear Algebra Intuitively
- ams6110 14y ago"Intuitive" is completely dependent upon audience, in this case.
- derleth 14y ago> "Intuitive" is completely dependent upon audience, in this case. "The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned." -- Unknown, possibly Bruce Ediger There's a page about tracking down who said this: http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/misc/nipple.html http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/misc/nipple.html
- rsheridan6 14y agoEven the proper use of the nipple has to be learned - if you start a baby on a bottle it often won't use the nipple correctly: http://www.askdrsears.com/?q=topics/breastfeeding/common-problems/nipple-confusion http://www.askdrsears.com/?q=topics/breastfeeding/common-pro...
- rdtsc 14y agoVery cool. I really like the graphical representation. As a 'visual' person that help quite a bit. One suggestion though: Don't use x and y for vectors as those are typically used for individual coordinates in the Cartesian plane. So saying x=(0.75 \ 0.25) is a bit confusing as the intended audience is probably used to thinking of x=0.75 and y=0.25. Or say they would think of translating point p into point q where p would have coordinates (0.75,0.25) and q some other pair of x,y coordinates.
- denzil_correa 14y agoI feel disappointed when people use light shades of red or green to prove their points - it makes it difficult for color sensitive eyes to grasp the visuals.
- shrughes 14y agoYou mean color insensitive? Or just colorblind. /my pointless comment for the day.
- Myrmornis 14y agoGood posts those two. The second is http://blog.stata.com/2011/03/09/understanding-matrices-intuitively-part-2/ http://blog.stata.com/2011/03/09/understanding-matrices-intu....
- blablabla123 14y agoAnalytical geometry ;)