A different sort of math.
I wasn't quite sure what to expect going into MATH 308. I was not expecting the vast transition in thought from what I had seen in previous math classes.
It took me a while to get used to, this way of thinking about numbers that at first seemed very abstract and hard to grasp, but towards the end of the quarter concepts began to click and I began what to see what was defined by the systems of numbers. Terms like null space, span, and rank all began to work together by the time I took the final, and I'm happy to say I was finally able to visualize and understand what was going on.
One thing I really enjoyed about this class is the new way of thinking and analyzing that was applicable to one specific situation AND translatable to a more generalized situation in which you could see vast trends and effects on certain subsets of data. I'm excited to see how this will be used and applied to chemical engineering problems in the future.
It took me a while to get used to, this way of thinking about numbers that at first seemed very abstract and hard to grasp, but towards the end of the quarter concepts began to click and I began what to see what was defined by the systems of numbers. Terms like null space, span, and rank all began to work together by the time I took the final, and I'm happy to say I was finally able to visualize and understand what was going on.
One thing I really enjoyed about this class is the new way of thinking and analyzing that was applicable to one specific situation AND translatable to a more generalized situation in which you could see vast trends and effects on certain subsets of data. I'm excited to see how this will be used and applied to chemical engineering problems in the future.
I really enjoyed the way that this material was worked out on paper. The manipulation of many matrices not only makes for a cool picture, but it was enthralling for me how every matrix entry was effected differently but in the end revealed a similar outcome and worked together to form a trend or specify the output of a linear transformation.