What is a Characteristic Polynomial of a Matrix?
Channel: Andrew Misseldine
Date: 2020-04-08

In this video, we define the characteristic polynomial of a square matrix and show how to compute it for triangular matrices.

Linear Algebra Done Openly is an open source linear algebra textbook developed by Dr. Andrew Misseldine. It is supported and improved by student contributions done by Math 2700 students at Southern Utah University, since Fall 2018. The textbook can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KQ7dbLXI4x39VwZovTL0DKRsZwt_i3Vt&authuser=andrewmisseldine@suu.edu&usp=drive_fs

This lecture covers section 6.2 - The Characteristic Polynomial from the book. This is part 1 of 5 videos from this section.