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An Undergraduate Lecture Series for the Foundations of Computational Economics
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[eigen_I] Improvement suggestions #357

Open HumphreyYang opened 9 months ago

HumphreyYang commented 9 months ago

This PR collects feedback from the reading group on eigen_I.

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jstac commented 9 months ago

The vector field suggestion is really good. I think we could almost start off with a picture something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_field#/media/File:VectorField.svg where the arrows show motion from $x$ to $Ax$.

Then we note that some arrows exhibit a scaling action. We can add in lines that show the eigenvectors (that are scaled) more clearly. Then we can say that the vectors on these lines are eigenvectors, and the scaling factors are the eigenvalues.

Then we can discuss how they are important, following @HumphreyYang 's point "Give a better motivation for ..."

HumphreyYang commented 8 months ago

Further comments by @pgrosser1: