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Linear algebra is a branch of algebra dealing with the study of vector spaces and the linear transformations inter them. In a more abstract set up linear algebra is the category of vector spaces.

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  • Linear algebra is a branch of algebra dealing with the study of vector spaces and the linear transformations inter them. In a more abstract set up linear algebra is the category of vector spaces.
  • The science was first explored around 500 B.C. when Euclid (of Greece) discovered that two spherical vectors can be used to describe a spherical volume. First believed to have no practical applications, linear algebra was revisited in 1843 by the british monk William Rowan Hamilton, who accidentally received a ten pound century old copy of the greek scripture on his toes. Another monk, the german Hermann Grassmann, invented the matrix, which basically is a list of numbers. Noteworthy is the contemporary usage which often involves green symbols falling downward. Despite early difficulties, Grassmann discovered (with the help of wine) that matrices were extremely useful to describe curved vectors and spherical rooms, but the only problem with this was that to get the proper results, one had
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  • The science was first explored around 500 B.C. when Euclid (of Greece) discovered that two spherical vectors can be used to describe a spherical volume. First believed to have no practical applications, linear algebra was revisited in 1843 by the british monk William Rowan Hamilton, who accidentally received a ten pound century old copy of the greek scripture on his toes. Another monk, the german Hermann Grassmann, invented the matrix, which basically is a list of numbers. Noteworthy is the contemporary usage which often involves green symbols falling downward. Despite early difficulties, Grassmann discovered (with the help of wine) that matrices were extremely useful to describe curved vectors and spherical rooms, but the only problem with this was that to get the proper results, one had to sacrifice a goat to God
  • Linear algebra is a branch of algebra dealing with the study of vector spaces and the linear transformations inter them. In a more abstract set up linear algebra is the category of vector spaces.
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