How to Build Backlinks and Authority with Guest Posts
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Step 2: Research Potential Guest Posting Opportunities
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A while back, Sam Stewart and I agreed to write posts on each other’s blogs. Because of some technical issues, my post didn’t get made public for a month or so. I realized this week that I’d completely forgotten to mention that it’s available now!
Sadly, some of the formatting was lost, which makes the organizational structure a little less clear IMO. When Sam gets back to the country maybe I’ll bug him to touch it up a little :P
I was reminded of this when I was rummaging around in my really old posts and discovered that I had previously written a post called “What’s Linear about Linear Algebra”. So I guess between these two posts we’ve got the whole subject covered, eh? ;)
If you find either of these posts interesting, you might like a couple of Sam’s other posts:
90% math, 10% philosophy:
Why Matrix Multiplication is Natural
Why Real Canonical Forms are Obvious.
10% math, 90% philosophy:
Riding A Horse Upon The Fields Of Pure Math
Formalism Complexity And Bureaucracy
Also, I had a tremendous amount of scrap material from writing this post, as I tried to lay out the most concise version of the story that I was willing to call a post. I’ll some of the more readable scraps below the break, in case you’re interested in some of the other “mathematical stories I could tell you about this experience”.
[ It should probably be noted, before we get started, that I did not just shit out these “scraps”. I spent a long time thinking about them (and the others that I wrote) and trying to weave them into the post. In total I spent around 12 working hours to get the post that now lives on Sam’s website. So, yes, these didn’t make the cut, but that’s not because I routinely throw away stuff like this; I was just trying to make a good impression :P ]
On the first day of the Linear Algebra course
The story begins on the first day of Linear Algebra when our professor very apologetically defined an abstract vector space over an arbitrary field. (Apologetically, of course— the proper way to introduce vector spaces to an introductory linear algebra class.) This took the entire hour, because this is the first time that most people will have seen such a monstrous definition, so you can’t just throw the axioms on the board and say “it works don’t worry”. But since it wasn’t my first time seeing definitions like these, I was able to spend most of the class period idly thinking about things.
At the time, the Abstract Algebra course was talking about group actions, and so two things immediately came to mind:
First, the vector space itself is an abelian group.
Second, the multiplication on the space is something that might respectably be called a “field action”: it is a group action for both $(\Bbb F,+)$ and $(\Bbb F, \cdot)$ in a way that respects distributivity.
[ With more experience on the matter, the first observation is fairly standard. The second one, on the other hand, is an observation that I’ve actually never seen made... pretty much anywhere. This is possibly because field actions don’t have any other applications. But could also be because we often study group actions not to learn about the set they act on, but to better understand the group itself... and somehow fields are a lot less mysterious than groups are, needing much less sophisticated understanding. ]
So I came into Linear Algebra primed to see its relationship to Abstract Algebra, and I was in for a treat.
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When I first realized linearity was kind of a big deal
A lot of people think of linear algebra as matrices. This included most of the students in the course (and me); indeed, everyone had seen matrices before in the first half-semester. So the professor went in a different direction: after defining a vector space, he immediately went on to discuss subspaces.
Having seen the whole groups-rings-fields spiel before, I recognized that this as a very stylized maneuver. When you’re learning a new subject, it’s always good to arm yourself with a supply of examples. But if you happen to find yourself in an “algebraic” category, there’s another fairly formulaic way to get the lay of the land: first you understand the objects, then the subobjects, then the structure-preserving maps, then images and kernels, then the quotient objects, and then you look for something like the isomorphism theorems. There are more sophisticated tools that you might want to develop from there (maybe representations come to mind?), but this is at least enough that an algebraist starts to feel comfortable.
What I was not prepared for is how very, very long we spent on subspaces! Generally, subobjects are not that interesting, and in some sense this is true for vector spaces as well. But because the linear structure gives you that magical feature called a basis, there is actually quite a bit you might say. The interaction between linear independence, spans, and subspaces, gives you a lot to talk about :)
[ Spanning sets of vector spaces feel like generating sets of groups, but they don’t generate (in the group-theoretic sense) the entire space: only a lattice. The notion of a span arises by somehow usefully combining the group addition with the ‘field action’, and it feels to me as though there may be some more general principle at play here. ]
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Meta: highlights from the brainstorming session
[ As I mentioned in the final version of the guespost; there were a lot of stories that I could have chosen to tell. A few of them that didn’t make it in ]
solution spaces as cosets
Eigenspaces as quasi-fixpoints
dim sum theorem as a linearized First Isomorphism Theorem
Things I didn’t realize at the time, but appreciate now:
representations being the “instantiation” of the oft-quoted “abstract symmetry”
Quotient vector spaces. Just like at all.
Jordan canonical form as decompositions of $\Bbb C\langle A\rangle$-modules.
Anything at all about minimal polynomials.
How fucking cool the Cayley-Hamilton theorem is.
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