Meanings
nouneigentheory (uncountable)
- uncountablemathematicsThe study of eigenvalues, eigenvectors, eigenspaces, eigenbases, eigenpairs etc.
The purpose of this section is to introduce the basic terms and concepts connected with eigentheory: eigenvalues, eigenvectors, eigenpairs, eigenspaces, the characteristic polynomial, and the characteristic equation.
2017, James B. Carrell, Groups, Matrices, and Vector Spaces: A Group Theoretic Approach to Linear Algebra, Springer, page 239
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