A personal blog. Making sense of the world, one small part at a time.https://stillthinking.net/https://stillthinking.net/posts/connections-in-math-svd/https://stillthinking.net/posts/connections-in-math-svd/Most books state the Singular Value Decomposition as a finished theorem. Here we arrive at it naturally, without even aiming for it — letting the structure of any linear map hand us the factorization for free.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTmathlinear-algebrasvdfrom-scratch