Eigen is a popular C++ library for linear algebra and matrix operations. Here are some basic tutorials for getting started with Eigen:
- Installing Eigen:
- Eigen is a header-only library, which means that you don’t need to compile anything to use it. To install Eigen, you just need to download the latest version from the website (https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/) and unzip it to a directory on your computer.
- To use Eigen in your C++ program, you will need to include the relevant header files. You can do this by adding the following line to your code:
#include <Eigen/Dense>
- Creating and manipulating matrices:
- Eigen provides several classes for representing matrices, including
Matrix
,MatrixXd
, andArray
. TheMatrixXd
class is a convenient way to represent a matrix with dynamically sized elements. - To create a matrix with
MatrixXd
, you can use the following syntax:
MatrixXd A(rows, cols);
This creates an rows
x cols
matrix with uninitialized elements. You can also create a matrix with initialized elements using the following syntax:
MatrixXd A(rows, cols);
A << 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6;
This creates a 2 x 3 matrix with the elements 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
- You can access the elements of a matrix using the
()
operator:
double element = A(i, j);
This gets the element at row i
and column j
of the matrix A
.
- You can also use the
.row(i)
and.col(j)
methods to get thei
th row orj
th column of a matrix as a vector
VectorXd row = A.row(i);
VectorXd col = A.col(j);
3. Matrix operations:
- Eigen provides many functions for performing operations on matrices, such as matrix multiplication, transpose, and inversion. Here are some examples:
// Matrix multiplication
MatrixXd C = A * B;
// Transpose
MatrixXd A_transpose = A.transpose();
// Inverse
MatrixXd A_inverse = A.inverse();
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