Here is a more elegant and scalable solution, imo. It’ll work for any nxn matrix and you may find use for the other methods. Note that getMatrixInverse(m) takes in an array of arrays as input. Please feel free to ask any questions.
def transposeMatrix(m):
return map(list,zip(*m))
def getMatrixMinor(m,i,j):
return [row[:j] + row[j+1:] for row in (m[:i]+m[i+1:])]
def getMatrixDeternminant(m):
#base case for 2x2 matrix
if len(m) == 2:
return m[0][0]*m[1][1]-m[0][1]*m[1][0]
determinant = 0
for c in range(len(m)):
determinant += ((-1)**c)*m[0][c]*getMatrixDeternminant(getMatrixMinor(m,0,c))
return determinant
def getMatrixInverse(m):
determinant = getMatrixDeternminant(m)
#special case for 2x2 matrix:
if len(m) == 2:
return [[m[1][1]/determinant, -1*m[0][1]/determinant],
[-1*m[1][0]/determinant, m[0][0]/determinant]]
#find matrix of cofactors
cofactors = []
for r in range(len(m)):
cofactorRow = []
for c in range(len(m)):
minor = getMatrixMinor(m,r,c)
cofactorRow.append(((-1)**(r+c)) * getMatrixDeternminant(minor))
cofactors.append(cofactorRow)
cofactors = transposeMatrix(cofactors)
for r in range(len(cofactors)):
for c in range(len(cofactors)):
cofactors[r][c] = cofactors[r][c]/determinant
return cofactors