CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 UnportedRayan, StevenSchaposnik, Laura P.2022-08-052022-08-052020https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/9932http://dx.doi.org/10.34657/8970Higgs bundles appeared a few decades ago as solutions to certain equations from physics and have attracted much attention in geometry as well as other areas of mathematics and physics. Here, we take a very informal stroll through some aspects of linear algebra that anticipate the deeper structure in the moduli space of Higgs bundles.enghttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/510Geometry and TopologyReport9 S.