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So what's the point of linear algebra, anyway?

4 points| 3PS | 1 year ago |chittur.dev

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richrichie|1 year ago

People have written very nice books on this e.g.

https://linear.axler.net/

3PS|1 year ago

> The novel approach taken here banishes determinants to the end of the book.

Big fan of this approach! Though I have warmed up to determinants ever since I saw 3Blue1Brown give a fairly intuitive explanation for them [0].

I'm kind of curious as to how they covered eigenvalues/the characteristic polynomial without determinants. Maybe they just jumped straight to diagonalization?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip3X9LOh2dk