Robotics 501: Mathematics for Robotics
Honest question (am a prof. of Maths for engineering at a Spanish Univ. and am wondering about this a lot):<p>What is the point of explaining, say the QR factorization or iterative methods like Gauss-Jordan to <i>engineers</i>? I think of them as the method of integration of rational functions (the complete method, not the basic cases): totally useless <i>today</i>...<p>I understand, for example, the Jordan decomposition theorem in a Linear Algebra course <i>because</i> it gives a clear-cut description of a linear map and the meaning of eigenvalues/eigenspaces, etc.<p>Anyone cares to share? Thanks in advance.