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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: Re: Math and CS
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Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 13:12:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 13:12:00 1986
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In article <609@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
>Linear Algebra -- boy is there a lot of difference in how the courses are
>presented in different places...
>
>What we got was  pure theory.  There were no numbers, except as subscripts
>and superscripts.  There were definitional questions, such as:
>
>	What is a vector space?
>	What is a sub-space?  bases and dimensions? fields?

When I took the course that covered that material, it was called either
"modern algebra" or "abstract algebra", I don't remember which.  I
happened to have a good professor, so I actually learned something
(or I thought I did - I don't remember any of it now).  I can easily
see being confused by a less-than-perfect description of the ideas.

When I took linear algebra, it was all matrices, determinants, and
simultaneous equations, etc.  Easy stuff.

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