Beginning Julia Programming: For Engineers and Scientists

© Sandeep Nagar 2017

Sandeep Nagar, Beginning Julia Programming, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3171-5_8

8. Arrays for Matrix Operations

Sandeep Nagar¹ 

(1)New York, USA

8.1 Defining an Array

A Julia array is equivalent to a mathematical matrix because, just like a Julia array, a matrix is an ordered collection of numbers. The simplest case for a matrix is the one storing component of a 3D vector. For example, a vector can also be represented as either a row matrix:

or a column matrix:

In both cases, the numbers 2, 3, and −4 are ordered in a fashion. ...