Everyone please do me a favour and add a comment to this posting when you hear “Eigenvector” used by someone who does not know what the word means. I did three years of Astrophysics, and I didn’t do it to let business-management folk get away with abusing my vocabulary:
Eigenvector
In linear algebra, the eigenvectors (from the German eigen meaning “inherent, characteristic”) of a linear operator are non-zero vectors which, when operated on by the operator, result in a scalar multiple of themselves. The scalar is then called the eigenvalue associated with the eigenvector.
…this could be almost as much fun as asking a Six-Sigma person what the root-mean-square of the deviations from the mean in a normally distributed function, is…
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