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I think the original mathematician that proposed this idea was named Mr. Eigen, so eigenvector doesn’t actually refer to the german word “eigen”.

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If I remember right the term was introduced by Hilbert

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this is not true. The eigenvectors direction remains unchanged by the matrix representing alinear mapping. it is therefore characteristic to the matrix, hence the term “eigen”.

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