What do eigenvalues and eigenvectors represent intuitively? What is their significance?

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What do eigenvalues and eigenvectors represent intuitively? What is their significance?

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pre-requisite:
trnasformation using matrices

if you think matrix as transformation matrix then, in resultant transformed space, eigen vector represents the direction in which only magnitude of a vector will change not direction.

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