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It's strange how many of my CS friends were deathly afraid of linear algebra, yet still enjoying their graphics classes.
by j2kun 12y ago
It's strange how many of my CS friends were deathly afraid of linear algebra, yet still enjoying their graphics classes.
- otoburb 12y agoWhat are your thoughts on those revisiting linear algebra to instead try their hand at learning geometrical algebra instead?
- dfan 12y agoYou can't really get around linear algebra. Geometric algebra is really neat, and you can benefit from taking a geometric algebra approach to linear algebra (Macdonald's book is pretty good for that), but it enhances linear algebra, it's not a substitute for it.
- jlarocco 12y agoI think I'm in that camp. I got a D in linear algebra, my lowest grade in university and one of my lowest grades ever, but excelled in computer graphics, and even got permission to take a graduate level course in it for elective credit as an undergrad. My recollection is that the problem sets in the linear algebra class seemed really abstract and vague, and I couldn't reason through it very well because I couldn't visualize what we learned, given the information from the class. Computer graphics, however, let me visualize what we were covered, and suddenly everything made sense. I could see, literally, what the end result was supposed to be, and it just clicked. Now that I think about it, it's kind of a shame I had the linear algebra class first. The CG experience would have helped me out quite a bit.