Honest question (am a prof. of Maths for engineering at a Spanish Univ. and am wondering about this a lot):
What is the point of explaining, say the QR factorization or iterative methods like Gauss-Jordan to engineers? I think of them as the method of integration of rational functions (the complete method, not the basic cases): totally useless today...
I understand, for example, the Jordan decomposition theorem in a Linear Algebra course because it gives a clear-cut description of a linear map and the meaning of eigenvalues/eigenspaces, etc.
What is the point of explaining, say the QR factorization or iterative methods like Gauss-Jordan to engineers? I think of them as the method of integration of rational functions (the complete method, not the basic cases): totally useless today...
I understand, for example, the Jordan decomposition theorem in a Linear Algebra course because it gives a clear-cut description of a linear map and the meaning of eigenvalues/eigenspaces, etc.
Anyone cares to share? Thanks in advance.