How to find the eigen value and eigen vector of matrix with size (5030 * 3 )?

Question

I have to find the eigen values of matrix which contains the 5030 rows and 3 columns. while using the numpy.linalg.eig(matrix) function it gives me error of

LinAlgError: Last 2 **dimensions** of the array must be square

is it compulsory that for eigen values matrix must be square. or is there someways to find the eigen values of matrix with size(5030 *3).

Answer 1

Eigenvalues are defined for linear endomorphisms. For that reason the associated matrix must be square in order to compute its eigenvalues and eigenvectors.