# Extract a smaller matrix from a bigger one [closed]

May be duplicate, but, how it is possible to make a matrix or table of smaller dimensions, from a matrix with bigger dimensions. I mean, one may want to extract a 25*25 table from a 25*50 matrix. I did not understand the solutions mentioned in this page and this one.

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## closed as off-topic by Öskå, Sjoerd C. de Vries, belisarius, Michael E2, Yves KlettJun 17 '14 at 17:53

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Please check this. Is it what you mean? –  Öskå Jun 17 '14 at 12:44
Is the second matrix extracted from the first one? –  Enthusiastic Student Jun 17 '14 at 12:46
Well, if you look at the image you will see that it is, isn't it? –  Öskå Jun 17 '14 at 12:49
Yes you are right. But I do not fully understand the codes as I a beginner user. –  Enthusiastic Student Jun 17 '14 at 12:51
Take a look at Part and Span in the documentation. If it helps mat[[All, ;; 2]] is equivalent to mat[[All, 1 ;; 2]]. It means that from mat you will take All the rows but only the columns from 1 to 2; with 1 to 2 translated by 1;;2. –  Öskå Jun 17 '14 at 12:54

It's very easy with Mathematica:

Build a matrix:

m = Partition[Table[i, {i, 1, 100}], 10]


Take first three rows:

m[[1 ;; 3, All]]


Take last three rows:

m[[-3 ;; -1, All]]


Take columns 3 and 4:

m[[All, 3 ;; 4]]


Take just something:

m[[4 ;; 5, 6 ;; 7]]

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I did it by means of the syntax bellow but I can not post it as I have not enough reputations: Block[{i=25, j=25}, Take[MatrixA, i, j]] –  Enthusiastic Student Jun 17 '14 at 14:15