A bird's eye view of linear algebra: the basics

We think basis-free, we write basis-free, but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.

Rohit Pandey
Towards Data Science
12 min readAug 27, 2023

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A birds eye view of a field. Image created with midjourney

This is the first chapter of the in-progress book on linear algebra, “A birds eye view of linear algebra”. The table of contents so far:

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I like to explain data science concepts through words, visualizations and code in the hope one of them will click. For my day job, I work at Microsoft Azure.