Showing posts with label Linear algebra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linear algebra. Show all posts

Friday, November 02, 2007

Computing a few Invertible matrices

Problem: Enumerate and generate the number of invertible matrices (n*n) with each entry either 0 or 1.

Example: For n=2, we have a set of 6 matrices. They are





Interestingly, these matrices form a group under matrix multiplication.

A much more harder problem would be to enumerate and generate all invertible (n*n) matrices with enrites fron the set { 0,1,...,n-1 }.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Linear Independence

This problem is the generalization of exercise 2.3.9 from 'linear algebra' Hoffman and Kunze.

Let the set of vectors be linearly independent. Prove that are also linearly independent given



I mean


and so on.

ps: I proved it by proving a certain matrix to be invertible and that was pretty cumbersome. Hoping for a better pretty solution :)