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follows.
What one does, is multiply the rows of
the first and the columns of the second
matrix through a particular manner.
The first term in the first row is
multiplied by the first term in the first
column.
To this is added the second term, and the
third terms, etcetera.
So for example, the first row of the
matrix shown, 3, 1, 0 is multiplied by
the first column, the second matrix 2, 1,
negative 2.
The answer is 3 times 2 plus 1 times 1
plus 0 times negative 2 or 7.
One fills in all of the other slots of
the product matrix through a similar
method.
Now, in the end, there's some very nice
properties to Matrix Algebra.
The identity matrix is something like the
number 1, in that it does not change a
matrix when you multiply by the identity.
Other matrices have similar, interesting
numerical properties.
For example, consider the matrix A that
is a 2 by 2 matrix, 0, negative 1, 1, 0.
Since A is a square matrix, we can
multiply it by itself.
What happens when we square A?
We will get negative 1s on the diagonal
and 0s off the diagonal.
That is A squared is something like
negative 1 in Matrix Algebra.
So this matrix A is something like the
square root of negative 1.
You may wish to remember that little fact
as data structure, matrices work well
with vectors.
One way to think about vectors is there a
difference between two points.
One considers two points in nth
dimensional space and look at their
difference.
This gives an object that has both a
magnitude or length and a direction.
For example, a planar vector has two
components to it, the change in the x
direction and the change in the y
direction.
A vector with four components is
something that you might call
four-dimensional, and you might represent
it as a column vector or an n by 1
matrix.
Now, vectors also have an algebra, you
can add vectors together in a way that
you've probably done before in geometry
class by moving them head to tail and
looking at the resultant vector.