Associations to the word «Eigenfunction»

Wiktionary

EIGENFUNCTION, noun. (mathematics) A function \(\phi\) such that, for a given linear operator \(D\), \(D\phi=\lambda\phi\) for some scalar \(\lambda\) (called an eigenvalue).

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin