Symmetric matrix
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A symmetric matrix is a square matrix that equals its transpose:
- A = AT
Symmetric matrices have useful characteristics:
- if two matrices are similar to each other, then they have the same eigenvalues
- the eigenvectors of a symmetric matrix form an orthonormal basis
- symmetric matrices are diagonalizable.