4 ms·Ah I missed the complex part. Clearly a complex matrix doesn't act on R^N by scaling the coordinates.by WoahNoun 4y agoAh I missed the complex part. Clearly a complex matrix doesn't act on R^N by scaling the coordinates.ogogmad 4y agoYour incorrect solution is the motivation for my "Another non-solution".WoahNoun 4y agoFor real symmetric matrices, the n-dimensional coordinate scaling is still a nice visual picture of what's happening in the real case of the spectral theorem.