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Is linear algebra useful to learn for distributed systems?

I'm taking graph theory next semester and wondering what else might be useful. I took a distributed systems course already and we used no math at all.

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Definitely, may be not directly, but it lies at the heart of software engineering(or more appropriately computer science). It helps with thinking differently, for example I don’t know if ndergrad courses teach distributed search algorithms using eigen vectors and values, but it helps to understand invariants and transformations better.

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