ThefamousFrenchmathematiciancalledReneDescartessaid“allproblemscanbetransformedintomathematicalproblems,andallmathematicalproblemscanbetransformedintoalgebraicproblems,andallalgebraicproblemscanbetransformedintoequations.”Therefore,oncetheequationproblemhasbeensolved,allproblemswillbesolved!
Furthermore,elementarylinearalgebraisavaluableintroductiontomathematicalabstractionandlogicalreasoningbecausethetheoreticaldevelopmentis
self-contained,consistent,andaccessibletomoststudents.
Thus,Afterlearningthiscourse,youwillmasternotonlymatrixtheoryandsystemsoflinearequations,vectorspace,eigenvalueetc.,butalsohavetheabilityofmatrixoperation,matrixmethodstosolvesomepracticalproblems.Wehopethiscoursewillhelpyoutobuildtheessentialmathematicsforthestudyoffollow-upcoursesandotheracademicsubjects,thefurtherbroadeningofmathematicalknowledgeandtheimprovementofmathematicalattainment.
Dearstudents,themainobjectiveofthiscourseistodevelopstudents’abstractthinkingandtotrainthestudents’practicalability.