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Sylvester's criterion en · PROPN

Etymology

Named after James Joseph Sylvester.

Meanings

  1. A necessary and sufficient criterion to determine whether a Hermitian matrix is positive-definite: specifically, when all of the leading principal minors have a positive determinant.

wikipedia: James Joseph Sylvester