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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 11 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 11 months ago

If I remember right the term was introduced by Hilbert

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 4 points 11 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".