D ata scientists must understand these concepts very well. Finding Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of a matrix can be useful for solving problems in several fields such as some of the following wherever there is a need for transforming large volume of multi-dimensional data into another subspace comprising of smaller dimensions while retaining most information stored in original data.
The primary goal is to achieve optimal computational efficiency. Eigenvectors are the vectors which when multiplied by a matrix linear combination or transformation results in another vector having same direction but scaled hence scaler multiple in forward or reverse direction by a magnitude of the scaler multiple which can be termed as Eigenvalue. In simpler words, eigenvalue can be seen as the scaling factor for eigenvectors.
Here is the formula for what is called eigenequation. Note that the new vector Ax has different direction than vector x.
Many disciplines traditionally represent vectors as matrices with a single column rather than as matrices with a single row. Whenever there is a complex system having large number of dimensions with a large number of data, eigenvectors and eigenvalues concepts help in transforming the data in a set of most important dimensions principal components.
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And since E is a constant the energy , this is just an eigenvalue equation. Have a look at: Real world application of Fourier series to get a feeling for separation of variables works for a simpler equation like the heat equation. Heuristic argument of why Google PageRank comes down to a diagonalization problem.
Therefore, one can feel that theoretically, an "iterative approach" cannot work: we need to somehow solve the entire system in one go. And one may hope, that once we assign the correct importance to all nodes, and if the transition probabilities are linear, an equilibrium may be reached:. The equilibrium also happens on the vector with eigenvalue 1, and convergence speed is dominated by the ratio of the two largest eigenvalues.
I would like to direct you to an answer that I posted here: Importance of eigenvalues. I feel it is a nice example to motivate students who ask this question, in fact I wish it were asked more often. Personally, I hold such students in very high regard. These are important invariants of linear transformations.
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It offers a pretty complete answer to the question. I am extremely surprised this question hasn't already come up. Show 3 more comments. Active Oldest Votes.
Slightly Longer Answer There are a lot of problems that can be modeled with linear transformations, and the eigenvectors give very simply solutions. Sanchit 3 2 2 bronze badges. Arturo Magidin Arturo Magidin k 49 49 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Chapeau bas! Add a comment. Tanner 1.
I would like just to say that this short explanation was great! I find this good simple example very precious to serve as a motivation for eigenvalues, matrizes, etc. Thank you! Why bother? Show 1 more comment. For example, it could make the student naively ask, "why does the basis matter at all?
It would be nice to be able to address this without assuming they already know a lot of linear algebra. As the existence of a Jordan Block signals that some transformations act on certain combinations of axes that are inherently non-decomposable. Sridhar Thiagarajan 2 2 gold badges 5 5 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Herb Herb 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges.
In general the method of characteristics for partial differential equations can be had for arbitrary first-order quasilinear scalar PDEs defined on any smooth manifold. SChepurin SChepurin 6 6 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Why it is bad? Intuitively, there exist some strong relation between two such Matrices. Now Eigen Values are a necessary condition to check so but not sufficient though!
Let make my statement clear. Srijit Srijit 4 4 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Then, the definition of "doing a measurement" is to apply a self-adjoint operator to the state, and after a measurement is done: the state collapses to an eigenvalue of the self adjoint operator this is the formal description of the observer effect the result of the measurement is the eigenvalue of the self adjoint operator Self adjoint operators have the following two key properties that allows them to make sense as measurements as a consequence of infinite dimensional generalizations of the spectral theorem : their eigenvectors form an orthonormal basis of the Hilbert space, therefore if there is any component in one direction, the state has a probability of collapsing to any of those directions the eigenvalues are real: our instruments tend to give real numbers are results :- As a more concrete and super important example, we can take the explicit solution of the Schrodinger equation for the hydrogen atom.
PageRank is designed to have the following properties: the more links a page has incoming, the greater its score the greater its score, the more the page boosts the rank of other pages The difficulty then becomes that pages can affect each other circularly, for example suppose: A links to B B links to C C links to A Therefore, in such a case the score of B depends on the score A which in turn depends on the score of A which in turn depends on C which depends on B so the score of B depends on itself!
Community Bot 1. Doc Doc 1, 13 13 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. I'm going to venture a guess you have no grasp of this topic.
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