Chapter 6
More on Matrices
Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935)
Chapter 4 presented a few of the most of the important properties and operations of matrices and discussed how matrices can be used to express geometric transformations in general. Chapter 5 considered matrices and geometric transforms in detail. This chapter completes our coverage of matrices by discussing a few more interesting and useful matrix operations.
- Section 6.1 covers the determinant of a matrix.
- Section 6.2 covers the inverse of a matrix.
- Section 6.3 discusses orthogonal matrices.
- Section 6.4 introduces homogeneous vectors and 4 × 4 matrices, and shows how they can be used to perform affine ...
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