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Geršgorin And Beyond•••, Jason Knight Belnap
Geršgorin And Beyond•••, Jason Knight Belnap
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Eigenvalues are useful in various areas of mathematics, such as in testing the critical values of a multi variable function to see if it is a local extrema. One of the more common ways to define eigenvalues is:
Definition (1): Given that A is an n by n matrix, λ is an eigenvalue of A if and only if det(A - λIn) = 0. Any nonzero vector in Null(A - λI) is called an eigenvector associated with λ.
History Of Fermat's Last Theorem, Amanda Brown
History Of Fermat's Last Theorem, Amanda Brown
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Around 1637, Pierre de Fermat made a now-famous mathematical conjecture. However, Fermat's conjecture neither began nor ended with him. Fermat's last theorem, as the conjecture is called, has roots approximately 3600 years old. The proof of the theorem was not realized until 1994, over 350 years after it was proposed by Fermat.