Friday, 11 September 2026

The Group of Constant-Value Matrices

Now this one is really cool.


I would have bet your life on the fact that in any group of matrices, the identity is always a matrix with a 1 along the diagonal and 0 everywhere else. Nothing else is contemplated in an undergraduate maths course, and we were never confused by counter-examples. But here is one.

(This is a catch-up post.)

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