Matrices in real life

Very few of us knows that matrices are used in real lives and also that I like mathematics. I can't say I am excellent but I feel that I am somewhere around average. My liking however for the subject is far more than my excellence.

There are various uses of matrices. I am writing this particular column for the only reason that I find myself convinced that I know matrices. Mostly in our education we are not taught about the applications of such operations. They are only used in higher studies. We can't wait for that. Matrices as I have seen has many uses one of them being heat flow. The matrix represents a set of data arranged in tabular form. Various points are represetnted by different degrees of heat or temperature. This is hwo we know and understand matrices. Stress, strain, force acting on various parts of a metal can all be studied with the help of matrices. Even weather can be learnt with matrices. How do they do it. IT is simple. Each miniscule point in space represents say temperature in degrees of the cloud or wind. They automatically affect the nearby areas and there is a chain of such temperatures. Pressures of air can also be represetnted by matrices. Simulatneous equations as we call it can be represented by Matrices. This is of great value.
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What Next?

Do you know what I am for next. Make myself good at mathematics. This may seem a very vague way of putting it. However, the main subjects I am going to deal with will certainly be more practical. Operations research is going to be one. There are many things that you may find in OR. All engineers and technicians and management men use OR for improving their effectiveness.

The main objective of using OR is to run the practical problem at hand in a most effective way. The one good thing is that you can develop your own models in Operations research. For that to happen you must be good in proper reasoning and be familiar with the problem. OR is only for operations. This is wrong.

OR can be highly helpful in solving day to day management problems. Remember OR is a military subject so it most often talks about resource and time and cost and efficiency etc. I would recommend that for people who know their math well to make their own OR methods and solve day to day operations problem.

Back to Math

Hi everybody.
Wish all of you in good health.
I have restarted working on my math skills. Even though I am on Day 2/2.5 precision matters you see. This is something of a new I am discovering that I am unable to remember what I had read and done long time back. I am also trying to decodify what normal and simple signs of mathematics are about. The more I unveil this secret that more I will divulge in this b,log of mine.

I am now far more wiser than before. But in poor condition. I ahve realized that it is not possible to change the human brain even though things around you can change. Human mind will remain same for the next thousand years or so. Today newspaper says that Osama Bin Laden is death. We are in the 21st century. I don't knwo what kind of reaction his death is going to cause.

Back to Math. I have realized that even thought the equations are same their interpretation are different. I will not make things simplistic for you. But I would request you to relearn what you had learnt, give a new perspective . Since what we did was not within our capacity. We worked without asking questions. Now life poses many questions. and we have to formulate them better.
Math is a wonderful subject but too abstract at times. I just wish I knew more.

Bye do your math well.