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Lago PARANOIA
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Math resources on the WWW.

Post by Lago PARANOIA »

All right. I want to study Linear Algebra but as someone pointed out it's more like learning a language than studying math in the early phases.

So, anyone know of some good resources to study Linear Algebra? While we're on the subject, a good resource for studying physics would be appreciated, too.


As I'm not an all-take/no-give kind of person, here's my own math link:
http://patrickjmt.com/

Extremely useful for people studying algebra, calculus, and differential equations. He has some Linear Algebra stuff but it's not the kind of stuff I need. I need stuff, like, learning eigenvalues and such.
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Post by Parthenon »

Urgh, eigenvalues. I had a huge amount of hassle trying to work out eigenvalues and eigenvectors of 3D models. It just refused to work, although that could be because of shitty coding too.

So yeah, I'd like some of that Linear Algebra shit too.
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Post by Surgo »

From what I understand MIT has a pretty good Linear Algebra course on OpenCourseWare. It includes video lectures!
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Post by mean_liar »

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/classes/ ... inalg.aspx
http://linear.ups.edu/index.html
http://www.numbertheory.org/book/
http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/

I would think a textbook would have all your answers, though - what specific troubles have you run across? Is your text just shitty?
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