row-reduced

English

Adjective

row-reduced (not comparable)

1. (linear algebra) Said of a matrix which has undergone row reduction; i.e., of a matrix which has a 1 as the leading entry of each one of its non-zero rows and which has zeroes as all the other entries of any column containing such a leading entry (of any non-zero row).

References

• Garrett Birkhoff with Saunders Mac Lane (1953) A Survey Of Modern Algebra, Revised edition, U.S.A.: The Macmillan Company, published 1960, §VII.6, page 173