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Re:The $25B eigenvector (2006) [pdf] by cyberpunk0 on Sunday January 07, 2018 @06:14PM (#16093324)
You are wrongly assuming most courses aren't taught by overworked professors or TAs who just speed run through problems with no background on the subject and more or less teach you to pass the exams. Not everyone gets ivy league lectures.
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Re:The $25B eigenvector (2006) [pdf] by konschubert on Sunday January 07, 2018 @06:36PM (#16093448)
I don't see how adding another example why systems of linear equations are important would solve the speeding problem.
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Re:The $25B eigenvector (2006) [pdf] by cyberpunk0 on Monday January 08, 2018 @12:21PM (#16098215)
> Because if somebody is taking linear algebra in university and still didn't understand that this is an extremely important topic, then he should maybe go back to school or take a gap year or something to improve his general education.

Because not everyone professor romanticizes the subject or discusses its importance, not teaching anything other than surface details about problems.

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