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Abstract
All teachers know the power of “visual understanding” and the literature on this topic is overwhelming. In this article, we focus on the visual image of linear algebra and elaborate on two related references [3, 4] that are insightful but perhaps not well known. We aim to help the worlds of math education and math research to join forces in order to achieve what we all aim for: to explain mathematics in a way that truly helps to make it attractive and fascinating and worthy of our best efforts over a lifetime.
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Gilbert Strang
Gilbert Strang taught linear algebra and applied analysis on the MIT faculty for 61 years, until retirement in 2023. His textbooks are widely adopted. His video lectures for Math 18.06 on ocw.mit.edu/courses and Youtube/mitocw have been watched more than 15 million times – reflecting the importance of linear algebra.
Kenji Hiranabe
Kenji Hiranabe is a software engineer, CEO of ESM, Inc., CTO of Change Vision, Inc., and a book translator. He has been passionate about mathematics, and especially loves the beauty of linear algebra.
Ashley Fernandes
Ashley Fernandes has been in the publishing industry for the past 20 years and has been primarily associated with Gilbert Strang's published works (books, papers, presentations).