Re: finding eigenvalues
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- Subject: [mg45497] Re: finding eigenvalues
- From: "Fred Klingener" <flush at BitBucket.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:00:46 -0500 (EST)
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"Jeremy Watts" <jeremy.watts70 at ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:btncsm$22$1 at smc.vnet.net... > I have been wondering on whether there exist methods to find the eigenvalues > of a matrix other than solving the characteristic polynomial equation. Do > there exist elementary row operation methods that will find the real > eigenvalues of a matrix? > > I have been using a site that will find the eigenvalues of a matrix and I'm > wondering how it does it because I'm pretty sure its not doing it by solving > the characteristic equation. It might not make you an expert, but one of the places to start is the Eigensystems chapter in "Numerical Recipes ... ": http://www.library.cornell.edu/nr/bookcpdf.html Hth, Fred Klingener