Re: Creating Matrix from vectors
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- Subject: [mg100703] Re: [mg100691] Creating Matrix from vectors
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:40:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Mathematica does not have "matrix" as a built-on primitive type of data
structure. To Mathematica a matrix is just a list of lists, with the
individual lists being its rows. For example,
v1 = {1, 2, 3}; v2 = {4, 5, 6};
m = {v1, v2}
{{1,2,3},{4,5,6}}
And if you want to display such a list of lists to look like a
conventional matrix, wrap it in MatrixForm:
MatrixForm[m]
If you want to interchange "rows" with "columns", you may use Transpose:
Transpose[m]
{{1,4},{2,5},{3,6}}
And now if you wrap that with MatrixForm, you'll see the sort of display
you want, where the original "vectors" v1 and v2 appear as the columns.
Kinu wrote:
> Suppose i have a n number of vectors say s1, s2,... sn. I want to
> create a matrix such that these n vectors are the n columns of the matrix.
> I tried using A = {s1,s2,..,sn};
> however this keep the vectors intact and stacks them one below the
> other. How can i make a matrix from these??
> Can anyone please help me with this.
>
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- Creating Matrix from vectors