Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ib Paper 1 11E b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
For every invertible matrix ,The maps and are linear. Differentiate this identity at and use the chain rule and part (a):Thus . Given an arbitrary increment , set to obtain the derivative of matrix inversionThis also proves differentiability at every .
For a differentiable family of invertible linear operators, differentiate the identity without changing the factor order:Multiplication on the right by gives the derivative of matrix inversion,Commuting past the derivative would generally be invalid.