How is linear algebra used in algorithms?

Question

Several of my peers have mentioned that \"linear algebra\" is very important when studying algorithms. I\'ve studied a variety of algorithms and taken a few linear algebra cour

Answer 1

Ha, I can't resist putting this here (even though the other answers are good):

The $25 billion dollar eigenvector.

I'm not going to lie... I never even read the whole thing... maybe I will now :-).