A nice little pep talk motivating study of linear algebra and why it's useful (e.g. pagerank): http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algebra-fa

A nice little pep talk motivating study of linear algebra and why it's useful (e.g. pagerank): http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algebra-fall-2011/Syllabus/ http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algebr...