I made it to the final video in the Essence of Linear Algebra playlist from 3B1B this week but only made it halfway through that final video. My entire week was essentially spent working on understanding the topic of the 12th video which had to do with a concept known as Cramer’s Rule. The sad part is after… Read More Week 190 – Cramer’s Rule: A Week of Work, but Still No Intuition

I feel like I didn’t get much done this week but did get a solid grasp on what’s known as ‘the determinant’ in linear algebra. Although I’m bummed I didn’t learn about much else, I think the determinant of matrices will be really important to understand going forward so I’m happy to now better understand… Read More Week 189 – Determinants: Learning How They Work Before Why They Work

I essentially made zero progress on Multivariable Calculus this week, but I still had a fairly productive week and am pretty happy with what I was able to learn. My goal was to get through the next few sections of the first unit in MC and I didn’t even make it through the first one, Dot Products. I… Read More Week 188 – No Progress in Calculus, but a New Understanding of Vectors

I had a pretty slow week this week and didn’t get too much done. About 95% of my week was spent working on how to solve the area inside of polar coordinate functions. (Not sure if that’s how to properly say that…) I spent two days reviewing trig identities which are my absolute nemesis but,… Read More Week 187 – Polar Coordinates, Trig Identities, and a Welcome Change