[gowld]

This is silly. LA is incredibly rich, broad, and feel area of study. You can't just grab one part of it and say it's the most important and first thing. And it's silly to say that whatever is most important should be first -- the central ideas depend on prepaeatt.

[bo1024]

I’m not sure I agree when that one thing is the word linear (half the name). It just feels wrong not to ground the subject in the idea of a linear transformation.