Eigenstuff: Revealing Hidden Structure
Lecture no. 14 from the course: Mastering Linear Algebra: An Introduction with Applications
Taught by Professor Francis Su | 27 min | Categories: Default Category
Dive into eigenvectors, which are a special class of vectors that don’t change direction under a given linear transformation. The scaling factor of an eigenvector is the eigenvalue. These seemingly incidental properties turn out to be of enormous importance in linear algebra. Get started with “eigenstuff” by pondering a problem in population modeling, featuring foxes and their prey, rabbits.