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Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)

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Re: Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)

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Post by mrkgnao »

teperpencoli wrote: post #11
laretluval wrote: post #9

If you're interested in more great animations for a visual understanding of linear algebra, I can't recommend 3Blue1Brown's "Essence of Linear Algebra" series on Youtube highly enough. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...

These are the best linear algebra videos I've ever seen. The creator is now working on an introductory calculus series. He's already released the first few episodes to patrons.

Wasn't he hired by Khan Academy recently? It's great if that helps a wider audience to benefit from his work.

Re: Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)

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Post by Synaesthesia »

mrkgnao wrote: post #13

Excellent work! I've been trying to get my mother (she's a physics teacher) to learn linear algebra properly for a long time. Artin didn't work (ha), Khan Academy moved too slow/bored her, but she seems interested in this. It's important to appreciate how useful it might be to make math "tangible". Sure, someone who can define a manifold by saying "oh, put charts on it, locally diffeo blah blah" probably has a good s…

You have to show her the videos from 3Blue1Brown. They're so good

Re: Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)

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Post by hardcore96 »

happy-go-lucky wrote: post #10
yellow_postit wrote: post #4

One thing missing in comparison to most other textbooks is a set of problems to test the reader's understanding. The rotating and interactive figures are a very nice touch though. Along the lines of interactivity, maybe having a scratch area like a Jupyter notebook would be a potentially great addition so that I could try problems near the area where I'm reading.

I thought the same thing. A set of problems to test the reader's understanding and a scratch area like a Jupyter notebook would improve the interactivity.

I've recently worked on http://dspillustrations.com for a pictorial description of signal processing concepts. In the online version, it's not fully interactive, just animations. But after downloading, you can certainly change formulas and run it interactively.

Would be interested how one would manage to include a jupyter scratchpad in the online version?

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Post by darkhorn »

The order of the words and suffices is like in Turkish. One of my English teachers who has lived in Japan for a time (and she was a Turk) told us that it is very easy to learn Japanese because it follows the same word orders, and vica verse. On the other hand English is very hard becuese there is zero connection.
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