S. D. V. Stephens

notes / Studies in Algebra and Group Theory / chapter 3: Linear Maps and Operators / From my notebooks

N22 Review Part 1: Linear Algebra

Topics

  • fields:
  • vector spaces: and scalar multiplication
  • subspaces
  • span
  • basis
  • dim
  • char

The matrix of a linear map

Example N22.1. Let , Find its matrix and evaluate it on and .

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Apply to : These are the columns (third, second, first) of the matrix: Now let , :

Question N22.2. So if we have some tuple-like structure, say , of length , etc., what does this imply?