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by blackbear_ 1663 days ago
"super well-known" totally depends on which bubble you live in. "Eigen" immediately made me think at the eigendecomposition [1], which is a relatively common operation in AI, and probably served as inspiration for the names of both the C++ library and the company.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigendecomposition_of_a_matrix