“Mathematics is the art of reducing any problem to linear algebra.” This is a quote often attributed to William Stein, a former mathematics professor at the University of Washington, now the lead ...

Functional analysis provides the theoretical foundation for understanding spaces of functions and the linear mappings between them. Central to this discipline are Banach spaces: complete normed vector ...

Although linear algebra is regarded as a relatively modern mathematics topic, its ideas have been around for a long time. The first instance of the solution of a system of linear equations, using what ...

The spectrum of the canonical operator in the noncommutative 2-torus Tθ depending on the parameter θ ∈ [0,1] © Douglas Hofstadter's butterfly. Licensed under ...