This really made me think

It means you go to an engineering school, brainlet.

>>8928744
This. Generally in engineering centered schools the more in depth theory pertaining to linear algebra courses is taught in various different courses where it is more relevant, usually where it intersects with CS, while the base linear algebra courses teach the practical/applicable content, as it is fairly fundamental to many engineering methodologies.

>>8928744
But I don't go to an engineering school. The engineering department is on the other side of campus. I study pure mathematics and this is a pure mathematics exclusive course for linear algebra.

It just really made me think that the professor would come with an engineering textbook.

is it a sophomore level course?

>>8928732
"Pure" linear algebra looks very different than what most people think of linear algebra. For instance, you almost never use matrices.

>>8928802
Yeah

>>8928732
That he sees you all as worthless engineers. Get rek'd

>>8928732
It's a matrix algebra class and your teacher is trying to be nice by reusing your ODE/PDE textbook.

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>>8928732
>Numerical Analysis class
>Search for further references for the Finite Element method for solving PDEs.
>99% of the information are spooned algorithms with no proofs from some dumbass engineer textbooks.
>mfw

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>>8928836
>you almost never use matrices

>>8929794
There are plenty of theory texts for FEMs.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Mathematical-Theory-Elements-Engineering/dp/0486462994/

>>8928732
so it's the upper level algebra class? The lower level is not pure math, it's just calculations

>>8928732
>he doesn't know that engineers created mathematics
when will mathlets learn

I study operator theory, whose primary objects consist of operators (i.e., continuous linear transformations) on a Hilbert space H (i.e., a complete inner product space). When H is finite dimensional, it is isomorphic to Cn and hence these transformations are naturally identified with the n×n matrices Mn(C) by the choice of an orthonormal basis e={e1,…,en} for H. Given an operator T and an orthonormal basis e the associated matrix representation [T]e has a diagonal sequence. As e ranges over all orthonormal bases for H we can examine all possible diagonal sequences associated with T. When H is separable and infinite dimensional (i.e, has a countably infinite orthonormal basis), we can similarly define the infinite diagonal sequences associated to an operator T.

>>8929836
but that's true, assuming we're talking about linear algebra, and not some watered down course that could be as well called "multiplying matrices and finding their diagonal form, and Jordan canonical form is too hard for us"