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What is the trace?

Posted on August 6, 2022August 13, 2022 by Alexander Van Werde

Any student of mathematics learns that the determinant of a matrix can be interpreted as the amount that the matrix distorts signed volume. The trace is another linear algebraic invariant but its interpretations are not common knowledge. This is somewhat troubling since the trace, being such a basic invariant, occurs in many proofs across mathematics….

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