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Past exam of the mathematical methods I course of the University of Oxford 2021 resit 6 Solution by
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An invertible matrix is a square matrix admitting a matrix inverse with , where is the identity matrix. Equivalently, its associated linear map is bijective.
Let with eigenvector . The eigenvalue cannot be zero: otherwise applying gives . Apply to the eigenvector equation:Thus is an eigenvalue of with the same eigenvector.
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