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Re: Transpose matrix does not work when MatrixForm is used, why?

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  • Subject: [mg45532] Re: Transpose matrix does not work when MatrixForm is used, why?
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 04:03:49 -0500 (EST)
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In article <bsoe80$en3$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Dr Bob <drbob at bigfoot.com> 
wrote:

> No, Andrzej's solution works much better. That way I get to see m in 
> MatrixForm every time it is displayed... and still do math with it.
> 
> Unprotect[MatrixForm];
> MatrixForm /:
>    (f_)[MatrixForm[expr_,
>       opts___]] := MatrixForm[
>      f[expr], opts]
> Protect[MatrixForm];
> m = MatrixForm[{{1, 2, 3},
>      {4, 6, 5}, {9, 8, 7}}]
> m
> Transpose[m]
> Inverse[m]
> 
> His solution isn't complete, as this doesn't work yet:
> 
> m.Inverse[m]
> 
> This takes care of that:
> 
> Unprotect[MatrixForm];
> MatrixForm /: f_[MatrixForm[a_], MatrixForm[b_]] := MatrixForm[f[a, b]]
> Protect[MatrixForm];
> 
> But then this still doesn't work:
> 
> m.m.m
> 
> But this does:
> 
> (m.m).m
> 
> The behavior I want is nothing more than what Help says is already there 
> -- MatrixForm shouldn't affect evaluation.

If you set your set your Default Output FormType to TraditionalForm then 
matrices are automatically displayed as such and everything works as you 
require. If you don't want to do this, you can just set things up so 
matrices are displayed in TraditionalForm as follows.

  $PrePrint := If[MatrixQ[#] == True, TraditionalForm[#], #] & 

Earlier you wrote that

> > I don't want to see EVERY matrix in MatrixForm -- it takes up too much
> > space on my screen, especially for a large matrix, where the screen isn't
> > even wide enough to see a row in that format.

You may find MatrixPlot in LinearAlgebra` useful here.

Cheers,
Paul

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