Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Lesson 4 of 10
Diagonalisation
Objective. Write A = PDP⁻¹ where possible.
The key idea
A matrix is diagonalisable when it has a full set of linearly independent eigenvectors, which become the columns of P.
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