Chapter 20 LA6: Some Applications of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
We concluded the previous lecture in this series by outlining a practical problem (ranking pages from a web search) whose solution involved finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix. In this lecture we are going to look at two mathematical problems where eigenvalues and eigenvectors are useful. (These problems can also be applied to practical situations but we won’t look at any such applications in any detail.)