How important is linear algebra to Computer Science

>Linear algebra
>advanced

>tfw they teach advanced math in highschool

I'm a fucking geology major and I need to use tons of linear algebra. It is literally the most underrated math. I wish they had taught me LA before calculus because holy shit is it more useful than calc

>memorize

You could, like, you know, just maybe, bear with me here pal, I think you could actually learn the thing instead of memorizing it. It's absolutely worthless if you don't understand the subject.

And here's the catch. It's really fucking easy and intuitive too.

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For CS in general unless you're going into a phd probably not. But the thing is that it comes up a lot in most actual practical applications of CS. AI, computer vision, video games, big data, you name it.

Linear algebra is of foundational importance in many fields, due to several essential properties of matrices. An example would be solving the eigenvalue/eigenvector equation, which among other things yields the energy levels of quantum systems as eigenvalues, and the states as eigenvectors (a superposition over some specified basis). I believe graphics card "flops" and are also essentially just small matrix calculations done very quickly. Discrete Fourier transforms, used for instance in imaging applications, use the diagonalization of unitary matrices. So yeah, pretty important.

I used the word advanced to mean above the level of precalculus. Also they don't teach Jordan forms in high-school, only very basics.

it really depends what you want to do. if you just want to design websites in javascript or whatever then probably not. but if you want to do any kind of scientific computing or data analysis it's pretty essential

10000 times this. He has really interesting and intuitive videos, also on other topics. After 4 years of physics, I feel like I'm actually now truly starting to understand lin alg. The way he explained matrix multiplication really changed my entire view of LA.

A firm understanding of linear algebra will give you a sense for data and the ways it can be transformed
t. math major

This

3blue1brown has amazing videos for getting an intuitive understanding of maths