Muthumanimaran Messages 79 Reaction score 2 Thread starter May 20, 2014 #1 What does a rank of a matrix mean? why it is important? what does it tells you about?
jedishrfu Mentor Insights Author Messages 15,819 Reaction score 10,709 May 20, 2014 #2 Its described here: http://www.cliffsnotes.com/math/algebra/linear-algebra/real-euclidean-vector-spaces/the-rank-of-a-matrix and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_rank Basically it will tell you the number of degenerate solutions. They provide some examples too. Lastly, a video discussion of the matrix and its rank among other things: Last edited by a moderator: Sep 25, 2014
Its described here: http://www.cliffsnotes.com/math/algebra/linear-algebra/real-euclidean-vector-spaces/the-rank-of-a-matrix and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_rank Basically it will tell you the number of degenerate solutions. They provide some examples too. Lastly, a video discussion of the matrix and its rank among other things: