**Way more useful than you were taught** Matrices do things to vectors. It's math in higher dimensions. $ \begin{pmatrix} 1 \\ 1 \end{pmatrix} $ represents a vector from the origin to position 1,1. You can use the Matrix operators to do things to that vector. [[Matrix Math]] shows up it’s lots of useful places. **** # More ## Source ## Related - [[Matrix, Vector, Scalar]] - [[Matrix Math]]