Is he right? Is linear algebra ugly?
>>16836088>like hammering a nail into a boardIn other words it's a useful tool with many real world applications.
>>16836088>Is linear algebra ugly?He didn't say anything of the sort.
>>16836088>muh symmetry muh beauty >seething about something not being abelianLaymen retards read this and think “wow dude that’s so deep”.Algebraists read this and go “filtered by kingergarten group theory”.
>>16836088What is the context of this image?
>>16836088That's why everyone with a brain does lin alg with transforms and leaves garbage like matrices and determinants for computer cucks.
terryology is perfect and is hidden by the annunaki
>>16836088>linear algebra is ugly because ab≠baHow abelist
>>16836157>computer cucks.Strange way to spell "employed people"
Not gonna lie, I just do normal algebra. I have no idea what a determinant is.
>>16836335A natural transformation from GL(n, F) to F^\times.
>>16836377What's GL, n, \ and times?
>>16836169/threadThanks, Boss. My keyboard needed a cleaning.
>>16836377>>16836394Sincerely requesting a qrd too. That sounds pretty badass beautiful honestly.
>>16836094Correct.
>>16836088Limp-wristed fag who's never used a hammer.
>>16836088You could complain about the set of all possible matrices of a field, but there are tons of subsets which are beautiful/symmetric in some way, like the representations of finite groups.
>>16836394>>16836457I am too lazy to typeset in latex.GL(n, F): general linear group of n by n matrices whose entries are elements of a field FF^/times: group of elements of F sans 0 with respect to multiplication
>>16836169kek
>>16836169lmao
Is it actually worth spending time learning group theory as a non-mathematician? So far the only abstract/higher level math I've engaged with have been firmly in the world of analysis (measure, functional analysis, analytic approaches to diff-geo and diff-eq, Fourier analysis, etc.). These have been fun bits of learning, but they've also turned out immensely useful in my career as a signal processing engineer. I've always been interested in learning algebra, but it's never been something that has been directly required of me for my job/research interests. Is it worth self-studying, and if so, what's a good resource for someone who never took an undergrad algebra course but is pretty familiar with proof-based math?
