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12 years ago
I want to take Linear Algebra to help out with the Biostatistics graduate program I am currently in. I am weak in math but catch on quickly. Is an understanding of Calc II good enough to understand Linear Algebra?
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If memory serves me I think I took Calc III and Linear Algebra simultaneously without any difficulty.  Calc I should teach you derivatives and Calc II integrals.  That should really be more than sufficient to understand Linear Algebra which really shouldn't involve much, if any, calculus at all.

If anything you would want Linear Algebra as a prerequisite for Calculus III, not the other way around.  Linear Algebra would teach you some determinant theorems which would be useful for working with Jacobians in Calc III.

Have you spoken to your advisor and professors about these prereqs?  Are you sure they didn't advise you to take Calculus III 'INSTEAD OF' (not 'before') Linear Algebra?  Certainly I'd imagine that learning more calculus would help you far more with statistics than matrices would (but I could be wrong).
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