Aug 21, 2016 · My professor just covered quadratic forms, but unfortunately did not give any intuition behind their meaning, so I'm hoping to get some of that cleared up. I know that we …

Dec 22, 2015 · I think if you are interested in this, I would like to recommend Kaplanksy's Linear algebra and geometry to learn about quadratic and bilinear forms, and then find a basic …

Feb 22, 2015 · Positive-definiteness is really a property of quadratic forms (over $\mathbf R$), namely the ones that can be turned into a sum of squares after a linear change of variables. …

For this I'm stumped, I know it clearly must involve what I've done and I've read questions about quadratic forms which say there is diagonalizable matrix with eigenvectors on the diagonal …

Jul 17, 2024 · linear-algebra vector-spaces quadratic-forms symmetric-matrices bilinear-form Cite edited Jul 17, 2024 at 12:32 asked Jul 17, 2024 at 4:28

Apr 18, 2014 · In linear algebra, a quadratic form is defined as $Q(x)=x^TAx$ for some (non-singular) matrix $A$ and any $x\\in V$, where $V$ is a vector space. Actually, quadratic ...

Oct 25, 2017 · Thus, there is an orthogonal change of coordinates that will transform the original quadratic form into: $$-6x'^2-y'^2+5z'^2=c$$ Now you need to find the extreme points by …

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Mar 30, 2020 · You say "the canonical form", but what does it mean? Quadratic forms have a lot of diagonalizations. Are you working over a special field, like the real numbers, and have a …

Dec 30, 2022 · 1 I’m studying linear algebra, and i saw the following statement: “As we associated a norm to an inner product, we can associate a quadratic form to a bilinear form, and the …