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Title

A Simple Program for Computing Characteristic Polynomials with Mathematica
Author

G. Cash
Journal / Anthology

Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences
Year: 1999
Volume: 39
Page range: 833-834
Description

This paper presents a program for computing characteristic polynomials written for the commercial software package Mathematica. The program utilizes several features that are relevant to problems encountered in computing characteristic polynomials by other means, especially limitations on problem size due to integer overflow.
Subject

*Mathematics > Algebra > Linear Algebra