On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:30 PM, BCS <n...@anon.com> wrote: > Hello Bill, > >> Kinda not the same thing if you ask me. Eigen-blah generally refers >> to something where you've captured the essence of something better by >> representing it using a different set of basis functions. >> >> This doesn't seem to have much of anything to do with that. Its just >> identity or sameness of name. That's not really what eigen thingys >> are about. >> > > An Eigen value for a matrix M is a vector V sutch that M x V = V (IIRC)
Close, If M v = \lambda v Then \lambda is an eigenvalue (a scalar), v is the eigenvector (a vector) --bb
