My version was: the course boils down to just two things: anything that is linear behaves like matrix multiplication; eigenvectors are the ones that don’t change direction.
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev and
But here’s the discussion I mentioned:http://jadagul.tumblr.com/post/159881292413/nostalgebraist-i-took-linear-algebra-as-an …
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev and
“the entire subject is, like, four actual facts, each of which is repeated twenty times in slightly different language.” Be nice if they told us that up front…
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev and
The problem is that the teachers themselves often do not have this "factored" perspective.
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Replying to @StephenPiment @St_Rev and
Yes… that became my suspicion in retrospect… MIT math professors didn’t really understand the subjects they were teaching.
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Replying to @Meaningness @StephenPiment and
They were just as much victims of their mystification as their students were. It’s time to blow this up
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Have you seen this? https://betterexplained.com/articles/colorized-math-equations/ …
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Yes, nice!
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