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Who is this explainer aimed at? If you can understand the first sentence, you probably already know what an eigenvalue is.
by ProjectArcturis 4y ago
Who is this explainer aimed at? If you can understand the first sentence, you probably already know what an eigenvalue is.
- 3qz 4y ago
- Jyaif 4y agoRight, but it's great to refresh your memory about eigenvalues.
- techwizrd 4y agoOften, papers or terse textbooks will list a definition like the first sentence without the added detail below. I think this is great for undergraduate students or folks who'd like to refresh their memory a bit on eigenvalues, how they're derived, and what they may imply. I certainly found it helpful.
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- CamperBob2 4y agoThe thing about Higham is that he's sort of a one-man Wikipedia of linear algebra. Many of the terms that he uses also have their own pages that (eventually) break the concepts down into comprehensible terms. See https://nhigham.com/index-of-what-is-articles/ https://nhigham.com/index-of-what-is-articles/ for a useful listing. Or, in an alternative form, https://github.com/higham/what-is https://github.com/higham/what-is . Notice that if you go all the way back up the rabbit hole you'll find user-friendly articles like "What is a matrix?" that clearly define the terms used farther down. I really dig Higham's pedagogic style, in case it's not obvious.