Monday, April 26, 2010

Eigen-What V. 2.0

Boss: "Can't you just describe what eigenvalues are in one sentence of plain English that anyone could understand?"

uhm....

3 comments:

  1. One way to explain it that is sort of easily understandable is that the eigenvalues and eigenvectors tell you what isn't< changed by your matrix -- which is sort of in a nutshell why they're so useful.

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  2. haha, one caveat... he said not to use the word "matrix."

    "well, you see there is this square of numbers that is very special... and we can play with this special square using math and make a very special diagonal line that we call EIGENVALUE"-- jk

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