Spectral-Theorem

linear algebra is the study of vector spaces and the structure-preserving maps between them. it is the one branch of mathematics that computers execute natively — every model fit, every graphics frame, every pagerank iteration is matrix arithmetic — and the local model that calculus reduces every smooth problem to. 𐃏 the plot of this page: spaces, then maps, then the four subspaces every matrix carries, then the two great factorisations — the spectral theorem and the svd (Anton, Howard, 2010).