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What are your favorite examples of German words making it into English? (lemmy.world)
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[–] Malte@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think the original mathematician that proposed this idea was named Mr. Eigen, so eigenvector doesn't actually refer to the german word "eigen".

[–] hackebeilchen@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago

If I remember right the term was introduced by Hilbert

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

this is not true. The eigenvectors direction remains unchanged by the matrix representing alinear mapping. it is therefore characteristic to the matrix, hence the term "eigen".