To a degree, yes. That's not _that_ long after Einstein had to seek out math experts because he didn't know the theory behind 5x5 matrices. Math professors I know who started much later than that didn't really get how linear algebra was useful when teaching ODEs. It's not that it wasn't useful, but it wasn't commonly used.
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To a degree, yes. That's not _that_ long after Einstein had to seek out math experts because he didn't know the theory behind 5x5 matrices. Math professors I know who started much later than that didn't really get how linear algebra was useful when teaching ODEs. It's not that it wasn't useful, but it wasn't commonly used.