
Matrix multiplication is defined between two matrices, and simply treats a right-hand vector. Mathematica supports true 1-dimensional vectors. Mathematica works with general tensors of arbitrary dimensions, not only 2-dimensional matrices like many MATLAB-inspired systems. The column vectors and the row vectors can be defined using matrix command as an example of an ( ntimes 1 ) matrix and ( 1times n ) matrix, respectively: Vectors in Mathematica are built, manipulated and interrogated similarly to matrices (see next subsection). begingroup That is not an 1 by 3 matrix but a length 3 vector. In a naive way, you multiply a values at row i in matrix A with a column in the matrix B and store the sum of. Multiplying three at once didnt seem to work, so then I decided to multiply the first two matrices, and then that result by the third matrix. Matrix multiplication is a very simple and straightforward operation and one, every computer science student encounters in the school at least once. I am trying to find the stiffness matrix of a bilinear rectangular element, so I need to multiply three matrices together in Mathematica.


As Dot is a special case of Inner with Dot = Inner, we can just tell Mathematica to use NonCommutativeMultiply in the first slot to take the place of regular multiplication. Here entries ( vi ) are known as the component of the vector. A sparse matrix is a matrix or a 2D array in which majority of the elements are zero.
