alt Hacker NewsI thought linear algebra was pretty much the poster child of applied mathematics - the entire field was invented to represent computations in a regularized form to feed into computers. Well not really, but much like Boolean algebra or the Fourier Transform, it was pretty much a curiosity until computers came along.
> but much like Boolean algebra or the Fourier Transform, it was pretty much a curiosity until computers came along.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_algebra#History: “Later, Gauss further described the method of elimination, which was initially listed as an advancement in geodesy”
That’s an application of linear algebra in the 19th century.