Who is credited with the 'Law of Inertia' regarding the signs of eigenvalues in quadratic forms?
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James Joseph Sylvester
Sylvester's Law of Inertia states that the number of positive, negative, and zero eigenvalues (the signature) of a symmetric matrix is invariant under a change of basis.
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