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Improve clarity of a sentence referring to figure 4.7 #628

Open st-- opened 3 years ago

st-- commented 3 years ago

Describe the mistake "This identifies the eigenvectors $p_i$ (blue and orange arrows in Figure 4.7) onto the standard basis vectors $e_i$." This is somewhat confusing/unclear. The $p_i$ eigenvectors are orange. The standard basis vectors $e_i$ are blue.

Location

  1. version 2021-01-14
  2. Chapter 4.4
  3. page 117 (pdf 123)
  4. paragraph before example 4.11

Proposed solution Rewrite: "This identifies the eigenvectors $p_i$ (orange arrows in Figure 4.7) onto the standard basis vectors $e_i$ (blue arrows)."

mpd37 commented 3 years ago

to be honest, I don't even know what that sentence means anymore... What about the following:

"This defines the eigenvectors p_i (orange arrows in Figure 4.7) as the new coordinate system with respect to which we continue."