Mathematics

Matrices in MATLAB

A matrix is a two-dimensional array of real or complex numbers. Linear algebra defines many matrix operations that are directly supported by MATLAB. Linear algebra includes matrix arithmetic, linear equations, eigenvalues, singular values, and matrix factorizations.

For more information about creating and working with matrices, see Data Structures in the MATLAB Programming documentation.

This section describes the following topics:

• Creating Matrices
• Adding and Subtracting Matrices
• Vector Products and Transpose
• Vector Products and Transpose
• Multiplying Matrices
• The Identity Matrix
• The Kronecker Tensor Product
• Vector and Matrix Norms

Function Summary

Creating Matrices

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