Sylvester's criterion
English
Etymology
Named after James Joseph Sylvester.
Proper noun
- (mathematics) 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.
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