Overall, the beauty of linear algebra is seen in so many different ways:
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Visualiztion
Combinations of vectors. Spaces of vectors. Rotation and reflection and projection of vectors. Perpendicular vectors. Four fundamental subspace. -
Abstraction
Independence of vectors. Basis and dimenstion of a vector space. Linear transformations. Singular value decomposition and the best basis. -
Computation
Elimination to produce zero entries. Gram-Schmidt to produce orthogonal vectors. Eigenvalues to solve differential and difference equations. -
Applications
Least-squares solution when Ax = b has too many equations. Difference equations appoximation differntial equations. Markov probability matrices(the basis for Google!). Orthogonal eigenvectors as principal axes.