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What is the importance of eigenvalues in mathematics? In the real world, where do we use these eigenvalues?

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    What do you consider to be "the real world"? There are lots of applications of eigenvalues, but you may not think of all of them as real world applications. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalues_and_eigenvectors for lots of examples. – mrf Jun 07 '13 at 10:44
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    I edited "eigen value" to a single word because of this – rschwieb Jun 07 '13 at 10:50
  • quantum mechanics for instance – user75086 Jun 07 '13 at 10:55

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