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What are your favorite examples of German words making it into English?

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Malte@feddit.de
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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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hackebeilchen@feddit.de
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If I remember right the term was introduced by Hilbert

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tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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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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