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Proving a Subset of a Group is a Group

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Undergrad Anyone familiar with Compressive Sensing (sampling)?

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Undergrad Affine hull and affine combinations equivalence

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Showing the Dual Basis is a basis

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Undergrad What is Kronecker's theorem/lemma for root solutions?

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Check the statements about a 4x5 matrix with rank 2.

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High School How do I improve my proof writing style?

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Undergrad Proving Commutator Identity for Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff Formula

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High School Question about finding the force using vector projections

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Interval of eigenvalues using Gershgorin circles

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Is f in the vector space of cubic spline functions?

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LU decomposition: Total pivoting

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Null Space of A: Find Rank & Dim.

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What is the determinant of the identity matrix in a larger matrix?

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High School Is ##\mathbb{Z}_2## a Field Despite the Zero Multiplication Dilemma?

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Undergrad When is a subset a subspace in a vector space?

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E1.4b Determinant with zero column

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Undergrad Proving the Orthogonal Projection Formula for Vector Subspaces

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Graduate Particle swarm optimization for matrix inversion

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Verifying $\beta$ as a Basis of $\Bbb{R}^2$ & Finding $|v|_{\beta-}$

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The decomposition for a symmetric positiv definite matrix is unique

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Graded Algebra: Understanding Color Dirac Spinors in Space-Time

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Undergrad Determining if the system is consistent

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Proving General Associativity for Group by induction

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Proof the set with the multiplication is a group

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Matrices of Linear Transformations .... Poole, Example 6.76 ....

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Undergrad How to Write a Matrix on a Webpage?

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Determine vec {{x},{y},{3x+2y}} in R^3 form a vec space

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Is This a Valid Vector Space with Unusual Operations?

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Two versions of Gram Schmidt orthogonalization method

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Undergrad Can't understand a step in an LU decomposition proof

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Matrix Addition: OK - No Examples Found

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Is a Group Abelian if Inverses Commute?

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Is the Kernel of Trace Equal to the $F$-Subspace of $V_\sigma$?

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Graduate Quaternions and Video Game Design

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A and solution are known find B matrix

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Can $[a] \times [b]$ be an element of ${\Z / n\Z}^{\times}$?

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Insights Lie Algebras: A Walkthrough - The Representations

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Show that the tridiagonal matrix is positive definite

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LR decomposition with column pivoting

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High School Linear combination of functions -- meaning?

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Is A Invertible When Each Diagonal Element is Nonzero?

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Find $(AB)^T$: Calculate Matrix Product & Transpose

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Linear Combination - missing data ?

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5.2 another Ax=B with an inverse

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High School Vector addition- Positive x axis.

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Are These Sets Vector Subspaces of R^3?

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What is the solution for x in the equation 1.4x + 9 = -2?

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Graduate Why does the Lie group ##SO(N)## have ##n=\frac{N(N-1)}{2}## real parameters?

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Combination of Linear Transformations

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Dual Spaces .... Friedberg et al, Example 4, Section 2.6

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A question about surjective module-homomorphisms

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Matrices- conditions for unique and no solution

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Undergrad Orthogonal transformation and mirror transformation

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Find Matrix A: Determining Inverse of Matrices

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Undergrad How to show that commutative matrices form a group?

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Undergrad Representing nonlinear functions involving vectors

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Proof of vector dimensions using inequalities

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What distinguishes a Field from a Ring?

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Find the angle between 2 vectors w=i+3j, vector v=<5, 2>

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Kernel of Linear Map $\theta$ in $\mathbb{F}_{q^n}$

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Undergrad How to properly understand finite group theory

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Undergrad The cases in proving that group of order 90 is not simple

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Undergrad Understanding a Sylow theory proof

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Undergrad Singular matrices and complex entries

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Undergrad Understanding Proof: Clarifying the Relationship Between K and H

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Undergrad Dimension of a set with vector function

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Find the sin angle between two 2d vectors

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What are the correcting words for matrices with equal integral entries?

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Vector space - Prove or disprove

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Multiplicative Inverse Proof Problem

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Additive & Multiplicative Properties of Ordered Field

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Undergrad Can Multiplicative Cosets Form a Group for a Subring in a Ring Homomorphism?

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How to Visualize Vectors and Subspaces in a Coordinate System?

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High School Bounds for the index of a radical

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Sum of basis elements form a basis

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Notion of a ring with identity 1=0

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High School Number of independent entries of a matrix

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Graduate Representation of elements of the Grassmannian space

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Condition number - Relative error

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The axioms of a vector space are satisfied

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Undergrad DSP: Recurrence Relations in a Linear Algebra Equation

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Transitivity as property of relation

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Are Non-Ordered Numbers More Than Complex Numbers?

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Reading Comprehensive - Transitivity Relation

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Graduate Solution?: Quintic Equation from Physical System

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Graduate Partial of the divergence of a gradient?

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Undergrad Images of elements in a group homomorphism

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Undergrad Adjoint Representation Confusion

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Ordered numbers - limited or not

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High School How can I properly distribute fractions when solving a set of linear equations?

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Undergrad Showing that the union of conjugates is less than |G|

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Irreducible factors of polynomial

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-412.7.3 decide if cosets of H are the same

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Undergrad Why must the group N be finite in this result?

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Undergrad Ladder operators and SU(2) representation

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