Computing Eigenvalues Using the QR Algorithm

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Let be a 4×4 matrix whose entries are the first 16 prime numbers with the main diagonal perturbed by some random noise. This Demonstration calculates the eigenvalues of
using the QR iteration method and shows the convergence properties of the iteration method.
Contributed by: Housam Binousand Brian G. Higgins (March 2013)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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[1] K. J. Beers, Numerical Methods for Chemical Engineering, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
[2] G. H. Golub and C. F. Van Loan, Matrix Computations, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
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