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Can you give some examples for algorithms which aren't obviously logically connected but use the determinant for its nice properties?
by AgentMatt 2y ago
Can you give some examples for algorithms which aren't obviously logically connected but use the determinant for its nice properties?
- mturmon 2y agoTwo ways to compute the determinant: 1) product of eigenvalues 2) cofactor expansion (e.g., https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/determinants-cofactors.html https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/determinants-cofactors...) The second is the one I was taught first, in the context of linear system solution, but it does not seem obvious that it would be related to the product of eigenvalues. It’s kind of a weird pile of arithmetic manipulations.