Don Romano 🍹Anyone working in engineering could benefit from learning linear algebra. With homogenous vectors, you represent the positions, orientations and rotation axes of what you're modeling, and with affine transformation matrices, you represent an indefinite number of successive translation, rotation, scaling, shear and even perspective projection transforms in a single matrix, which can be multiplied with your vectors to apply those transforms.
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