Finding the Inverse of a Matrix

Description

Here is a Sage cell that calculates the inverse of matrix $\it{A}$, where

(1)
\begin{align} \it{A} = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 2 \\ 3 & 4 \end{pmatrix} \end{align}

Sage Cell

Code

A = matrix(2, 2, [1, 2, 3, 4])
B = A.inverse()
B

Options

We can test if a matrix is invertible without actually inverting it with the .is_invertible() method:

Code

A = matrix(QQ, [[1, 2], [3, 4]])
print(A.is_invertible())
B =  matrix(QQ, [[1, 2], [2, 4]])
print(B.is_invertible())

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Primary Tags: Linear algebra: Matrices.

Secondary Tags: Matrices: Matrix basics, Matrix inverses.

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Author: R. Beezer

Date: 04 Mar 2019 21:51

Submitted by: Zane Corbiere

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