New Linear Algebra Functions
Mathematica 5 introduces new functionality in the area of
linear algebra, including generalized eigenvalues, matrix norms,
Cholesky decomposition, new singular value operations, characteristic
polynomials, and matrix rank.
The following table shows some of the new linear algebra functions
applied to symbolic and numerical matrices. In the table, the results
are shown for a symbolic 2 x 2 matrix m = {{a,
b}, {c, d}} and for the particular case of the
numerical matrix m = {{4., 2.}, {2., 4.}}.
![Table of new linear algebra functions: 1-norm, [Infinity]-norm, eigenvalues, characteristic polynomial, generalized eigenvalues, Cholesky decomposition](images/newlinearalg2.gif "Table of new linear algebra functions: 1-norm, [Infinity]-norm, eigenvalues, characteristic polynomial, generalized eigenvalues, Cholesky decomposition")
* Numerical only
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