> but much like Boolean algebra or the Fourier Transform, it was pretty much a curiosity until computers came along. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_algeb

> but much like Boolean algebra or the Fourier Transform, it was pretty much a curiosity until computers came along. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_algebra#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_algebra#History: “Later, Gauss further described the method of elimination, which was initially listed as an advancement in geodesy” That’s an application of linear algebra in the 19th century.