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Ok for the longest while I've been at war with polynomials and isomorphisms in linear algebra, for the death of me I always have a brain freeze when dealing with them. With that said here is my question:
Is this pair of vector spaces isomorphic? If so, find an isomorphism T: V-->W.
V= R4 , W = {p[itex]\in[/itex]P4(R) | p(0) = 0}
Here is the issue. What kind of polynomial am I examining?
It says it is the set of polynomials of degree 4 s.t p(0) = 0.
What does the p(0) = 0 mean? For example if I used the set of standard basis vectors of P4(R), what would the set of p(0) = 0 look like? All I could picture is
P(1) = 1 , p(x) = 0 , p(x2) = 0,...p(x4) = 0.
Is that the right way to look at it?
There was no specified transformation given either.
Thanks
Is this pair of vector spaces isomorphic? If so, find an isomorphism T: V-->W.
V= R4 , W = {p[itex]\in[/itex]P4(R) | p(0) = 0}
Here is the issue. What kind of polynomial am I examining?
It says it is the set of polynomials of degree 4 s.t p(0) = 0.
What does the p(0) = 0 mean? For example if I used the set of standard basis vectors of P4(R), what would the set of p(0) = 0 look like? All I could picture is
P(1) = 1 , p(x) = 0 , p(x2) = 0,...p(x4) = 0.
Is that the right way to look at it?
There was no specified transformation given either.
Thanks