The inspiration for this column comes not from the epic 1999 film The Matrix, as the title may suggest, but from an episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast that I listened to over the summer. The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract An n × n complex matrix P is said to be a generalized reflection matrix if P* = P and P² = I (where P* is the conjugate transpose of P). An n ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Sep., 1975), pp. 617-629 (13 pages) The method of conjugate gradients for solving systems of linear equations with a symmetric positive definite ...

Random matrix theory (RMT) has emerged as a powerful framework for analysing complex systems across physics, statistics and beyond, by examining the statistical properties of matrices with random ...