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GregA
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Sorry if this is the wrong place for my question, I'm having difficulty on a conceptual level getting my head round inverse functions and compositions of functions in R^n. I'm failing to understand my lecture notes as a result.
Suppose I have some function with domain R^n which maps to R^m given by f(x) = f[x1,x2,...,xn]T=[f1(x),f2(x),...,fm(x)]T it seems reasonable that you'd want to define f-1(x) such that f o f-1(x) = I, but is I an identity matrix?. I ask this because f(x) is a vector in R^m, I'd expect some other function g(f(x)) would also be a vector (as opposed to a matrix).
I'm clearly missing something. Can anyone throw me any hints or direct me to some online material that would help me (I have a book on the way in the post)
Suppose I have some function with domain R^n which maps to R^m given by f(x) = f[x1,x2,...,xn]T=[f1(x),f2(x),...,fm(x)]T it seems reasonable that you'd want to define f-1(x) such that f o f-1(x) = I, but is I an identity matrix?. I ask this because f(x) is a vector in R^m, I'd expect some other function g(f(x)) would also be a vector (as opposed to a matrix).
I'm clearly missing something. Can anyone throw me any hints or direct me to some online material that would help me (I have a book on the way in the post)
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