Linear Algebra and Differential Equations

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Linear algebra is one of the most widely used areas of mathematics; it has applications in fields as varied as computer science, economics, engineering, epidemiology, ecology, physics, psychology, archaeology and statistics.In linear algebra, we study linear transformations, an important group of functions that play a role in the various applications mentioned above.We'll start from a very concrete perspective, that of solving linear systems, but we'll quickly see that we can also adopt a…