This video explains eigenvalues and eigenvectors in a fresh, intuitive way, focusing on meaning and visualization rather than memorized formulas. Learn how they describe transformation behavior, why ...

Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that eigenvalues are the magnitudes of eigenvectors. In fact, eigenvalues are scalars that are multiplied with eigenvectors. This ...

After breakfast one morning in August, the mathematician Terence Tao opened an email from three physicists he didn’t know. The trio explained that they’d stumbled across a simple formula that, if true ...