{"id":266,"date":"2026-09-14T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/?p=266"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:38:44","slug":"why-is-linear-algebra-so-tedious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/2026\/09\/14\/why-is-linear-algebra-so-tedious\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is linear algebra so tedious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper on my <a href=\"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/journal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A. Borovik,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Selected_14_3_Borovik_Why-is-linear-algebra-so-tedious_14.09.26-1.pdf\">Why is linear algebra so tedious?<\/a>\u00a0 Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends 14 no. 3 (2026), 15-16.<\/p>\n<p><em>Abstract<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a basic law of economics of mathematics education: everything can be taught better, and without boredom, and mathematicians know how to do that \u2014 but it is more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>This short note illustrates this principle using linear algebra as an example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper on my Journal: A. Borovik,\u00a0 Why is linear algebra so tedious?\u00a0 Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends 14 no. 3 (2026), 15-16. Abstract This is a basic law of economics of mathematics education: everything can be taught better, and without boredom, and mathematicians know how to do that \u2014 but it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}