On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:16 AM, John Cremona wrote:
> What you call the classical adjoint is really the adjugate. That is
> abbreviated to adj, and since there is also an adjoint, it is a common
> error to call the adjugate the adjoint.
Do you have a reference for this convention? I had never se
My opinion:
What you call the classical adjoint is really the adjugate. That is
abbreviated to adj, and since there is also an adjoint, it is a common
error to call the adjugate the adjoint.
I would not be surprised if there plenty of elementary linear algebra
texts out there who describe adj(A)
What does the "adjoint of a matrix" mean to you?
I was brought up to understand it to mean the transpose of the matrix
of signed minors, a matrix close to being the inverse of the
original. Poking around (Wikipedia, Planet Math, Math World) would
imply this is known as the "classical adjoint." H
