Decomposing Eigendecomposition

Fundamentals

A gentle introduction of eigenvectors and eigenvalues

As a kid, I always broke stuff. I broke stuff because I wanted to see what’s inside. I wanted to understand how things work. Well, unfortunately — I just broke stuff — I couldn’t reconstruct it back to its working state.

Eigendecomposition breaks things too, just like I did — but it does it better. It decomposes a matrix into the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors.

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