Malte comments on What are your favorite examples of German words making it into English?

[–] Malte@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

I think the original mathematician that proposed this idea was named Mr. Eigen, so eigenvector doesn't actually refer to the german word "eigen".

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[–] hackebeilchen@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

If I remember right the term was introduced by Hilbert

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[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

this is not true. The eigenvectors direction remains unchanged by the matrix representing alinear mapping. it is therefore characteristic to the matrix, hence the term "eigen".

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[+] aaaaaaaaargh@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago

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