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Perhaps I don't recall my linear algebra well (we called it engine math), but there's a hell of a lot more to it than just passing inputs through a series of op
by niels_olson 12y ago
Perhaps I don't recall my linear algebra well (we called it engine math), but there's a hell of a lot more to it than just passing inputs through a series of operations. Linear algebra is more about the methods used to design very elegant models and transforms and understanding the limits of those models and transforms.
- Ar-Curunir 12y agoNo, those are the applications of linear algebra. Linear algebra itself is just a study of vector spaces and linear operators and transforms and such.
- niels_olson 12y agoFor context, I don't think I ever knew the thing we were studying was called linear algebra, so it took me another 17 years to realize that is the common name for what we studied in that class. Now I'm wondering if maybe one of the intents of the small engineering-focused school's tightly integrated math-science-engineering curriculum was to avoid an introductory linear algebra class. We had to understand matrices and vector spaces earlier for other classes and didn't do what you call the "applications" of linear algebra until sophomore year.