Vandermonde Matrix

Author

Eric W. Weisstein
October 1, 2002

This notebook downloaded from http://mathworld.wolfram.com/notebooks/LinearAlgebra/VandermondeMatrix.nb.

For more information, see Eric's MathWorld entry http://mathworld.wolfram.com/VandermondeMatrix.html.

©2005 Wolfram Research, Inc. except for portions noted otherwise

Code

Vandermonde[a_List?VectorQ]:=Outer[Power,a,Range[Length[a]]-1]

Examples

Vandermonde[Array[x,4]]/.x[n_]:>Subscript[x,n]//MatrixForm//TraditionalForm