Re: Symbolic matrix algebra
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- Subject: [mg45460] Re: Symbolic matrix algebra
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 05:20:28 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi, you must programm it by your own, because mathematica can not know that in (A+B)^2 A and B are matrices and you mean (A+B).(A+B) and *not* (A+B)*(A+B) and Dot[] behave quite different than Times[] for matrices. Regards Jens "mike.james" wrote: > > This is a very silly question and I have checked the archives for anything > relevant - I must just be searching on the wrong keywords. > > All I want to do is some simple matrix algebra. > I want to type in (A+B)^2 and have it expanded taking account of the fact > that A and B are matrices. > I want to use transpose, inverse and apply conditions such as the matrix is > symmetric etc? > I've tried non-commutive multiply and a few other tricks. > I can see that I could write a package but surely there must be one or a > built in solution I'm missing? > mikej