A bird’s eye view of linear algebra: The measure of a map — determina…

This is the second chapter of the in-progress book on linear algebra, “A birds eye view of linear algebra”. The table of contents so far:

1. Chapter-1: The basics
2. Chapter-2: (Current) The measure of a map — determinants

Linear algebra is the tool of many-dimensions. No matter what you might be doing, as soon as you scale to n dimensions, linear algebra comes into the picture.

In the previous chapter, we described abstract linear maps. In this one, we roll up our…