Timeline for What is the difference between matrix theory and linear algebra?
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| Apr 23, 2010 at 16:26 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | To echo the comment above: Kaplansky's quotation is that much more appropriate for people who code in low-level or numerical languages. It's possible to do a heck of a lot of symbolic calculation in such settings through the judicious use of integral matrices (here "integral" should be considered broadly). | |
| Apr 2, 2010 at 7:48 | comment | added | user2734 | +1! I confess that I like this quote much more than the other one (Dieudonné's), which, at least to me, appears a little arrogant. In my opinion, 'abstract' is not automatically 'better.' There are cases when one needs a concrete and efficient computation [Or, are all the algorithms implemented in Matlab just not smart enough because they use matrices? :) ] | |
| Apr 2, 2010 at 2:27 | comment | added | user1855 | I totally agree with this one. Thanks for sharing. | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 8:06 | history | answered | John Stillwell | CC BY-SA 2.5 |