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# scipy.linalg.funm

`scipy.linalg.``funm`(A, func, disp=True)

  Evaluate a matrix function specified by a callable.

  Returns the value of matrix-valued function `f` at A. The function `f` is an extension of the scalar-valued function func to matrices.

  Parameters: | A : (N, N) array_like Matrix at which to evaluate the function func : callable Callable object that evaluates a scalar function f. Must be vectorized (eg. using vectorize). disp : bool, optional Print warning if error in the result is estimated large instead of returning estimated error. (Default: True)
  Returns: | funm : (N, N) ndarray Value of the matrix function specified by func evaluated at A errest : float (if disp == False) 1-norm of the estimated error, ||err||_1 / ||A||_1

  Notes

  This function implements the general algorithm based on Schur decomposition (Algorithm 9.1.1. in [R78]).

  If the input matrix is known to be diagonalizable, then relying on the eigendecomposition is likely to be faster. For example, if your matrix is Hermitian, you can do

      >>> from scipy.linalg import eigh
      >>> def funm_herm(a, func, check_finite=False):
      ...     w, v = eigh(a, check_finite=check_finite)
      ...     ## if you further know that your matrix is positive semidefinite,
      ...     ## you can optionally guard against precision errors by doing
      ...     # w = np.maximum(w, 0)
      ...     w = func(w)
      ...     return (v * w).dot(v.conj().T)

  References

  [R78] | (1, 2) Gene H. Golub, Charles F. van Loan, Matrix Computations 4th ed.

  Examples

      >>> from scipy.linalg import funm
      >>> a = np.array([[1.0, 3.0], [1.0, 4.0]])
      >>> funm(a, lambda x: x*x)
      array([[  4.,  15.],
             [  5.,  19.]])
      >>> a.dot(a)
      array([[  4.,  15.],
             [  5.,  19.]])