holy shit so linear algebra goes from difficult to easy as fuck

>needing a visualization aid for something as simple as linear algebra.
Why do brainlets even bother with math? They should go be code monkeys where they can pretend to do math by drawing graphs and try not to drool over their keyboards.

>>9172058
Why do brainlets even bother condescending to other brainlets on their anonymous friendship simulator?

>>9172037
>linear algebra
>difficult
what

>>9172058
Yes we get it. Youre the big dicked math genius who mastered linear algebra at age 7.

>>9172062
>Implying /sci/ isn't an autism simulator with condescension as one of the main functions.
Leave it to a brainlet to not understand what their role in life relative to their position is.

>>9172037
learning it from a purely abstract perspective doesn't narrow, to a specific application, your ability to apply the techniques.

>>9172063
Proving subspaces can be hard....:<

>>9172097
>check for closure
Done

>>9172103
Yeah but ho do you do that with shit like matrices that have commutative multiplication properties?

>>9172037

>linear algebra is hard

I'm not /that/ bright but even I know that the OP is brainlet af

>>9172037
Because visualizing and gaining a deep understanding of concepts is not for the lazy, it takes hard work and willingness to think about something until it becomes clear.

I'd say about 50% of students in undergrad have no idea what's going on, they're just memorizing how to manipulate symbols. They are not willing to pore over even a basic proof until they get it

Understanding linear algebra from geometric point of view makes it much harder or impossible to understand anything more abstract than [math]\mathbf{R}^3[/math]

>>9172493
It still helps for understanding stuff like determinants and inner products.

Please tell me how geometry helps you understand spaces like [math]{L^p}\left( {X,\mu } \right)[/math].

>>9172528
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ineO1tIyPfM

>>9172501
yes, imagining 5 or 6 dimensional parallelotope is sooo easy

>>9172140
What?

>>9172286
>they're just memorizing how to manipulate symbols.
>implying math is 100% symbol manipulation

>>9172546
Like how do you remember the projection of a vector into another?
I personally just draw it in R^2. Same for remembering Gram-Schmidt.
Or for the determinant, you know that when it is 0, stuff that have volume have an image that doesn't.
etc

>>9172493
You mean you can't visualize infinite-dimensional space? What are you, a piggot?

captcha: ham road (the one you tread, piggot)

>>9172058
Please tell me more... We all know you are much better than code monkeys.

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linear algebra is worthless

>>9172037
Is pure symbolic linear algebra really that difficult for people to understand? I mean, it's abstract, sure, but it doesn't seem much more abstract than any other algebra.

>>9172624
Linear is the only algebra brainlets in other majors have to take. They think it is super hard because they compare it to their plug and chug classes.

>>9172624
The problem is a lot of books and college courses are like "this is a matrix. These are elementary row operations ok next section. This is span." Meanwhile barely anybody has a fucking clue what a matrix represents and are just memorizing patterns on how to solve the homework and quiz problems.

>>9172636
Goddamn the elitism is astounding on here. The implication is that everybody who isn't a math major or physics major is a "brainlet". Some of you cling so desperately to the only thing you have going for you - your above average intelligence.

>The implication is that everybody who isn't a math major or physics major is a "brainlet".
Yes, that is in fact true. Going a step further, many math majors are brainlets because they want to become teachers or actuaries. Face it Anon: mathematicians are the magicians of modern time. It's clear that people who don't pursue theory of magic are brainlets in the fantasy realm, and the same holds for those who don't pursue pure mathematics in the real world.

>>9172568
Dammit I meant to type "is not" not "is". I can't even meme correctly.

>>9172645
Give me one logical reason for why I should not cling and derive pleasure for my talent?

I do what artists do when they say art os everything. I do what athletes do when they say fitness is everything. You are just salty that in this case you are the inferior one. Go cry me a river m8.

its much easier to understand through set theory tbqh