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Graduate What Is an Example of a Matrix Norm?

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Undergrad How can I use different angles in linear algebra rotations?

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How Do You Prove That sa + tb Divides gcd(a, b) in Bezout's Lemma?

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Undergrad L2 norm for complex valued vector

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Undergrad Is Linear Independence Correctly Applied in These Examples?

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Undergrad Linear combination of linear combinations?

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Which one of these statements is wrong ?

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Matrix representation of T with Basis B?

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Graduate Can You Explain the Relationship Between a Basis and Its Dual Basis?

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Solving an Unsolved Math Problem: Ring A & Polynomials

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Graduate Matrix trace minimization and zeros

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Indicial Notation 2: Proving $\mathbf{a}\times\mathbf{b}\cdot\mathbf{a} = 0$

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For which values of k the matrix is diagonalized ?

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High School How to calculate rank of 2 by 1 matrix?

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Undergrad Solving a system of 3 nonlinear equations

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Undergrad Is the Empty Set a Vector Space?

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Graduate Abstract Algebra - Natural Numbers Proof

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Undergrad Where would I use quadratic forms and how?

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Solve Autoregressive Model Problem

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Graduate Question about SO(N) group generators

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Graduate Free R-Module Basics: What is a Copy of R?

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Graduate Generalized Associative Law for Groups

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Technical problem with eigenvalues

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Prove that this matrix equation has no roots

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Graduate A question about invariant factors

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Graduate Nagging Math Ques #1: 'Pseudo-Inner Product'

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What Is the Structure of This Quotient Group?

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Graduate Why is this matrix bad conditioned?

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Graduate Mersenne Primes: Identifying & Eliminating Non-Prime Numbers

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Undergrad Why Does a Singular Matrix Imply Infinite or Zero Solutions?

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Graduate Multilinear Functions and Polynomials

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Undergrad Shedding some light on the dot product

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Graduate Understanding generating sets for free groups.

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Graduate Is there a relationship between odd composite numbers and their factors?

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Graduate How Do We Prove Something is a Submodule?

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Undergrad What is the difference between a vector field and vector space?

  • harjyot
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Undergrad Inverse of a Matrix - Understanding Why We Note Relatively Prime Expressions

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Graduate An optimization problem worthy of our attention

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Undergrad Do Galois Theory Applications Influence Physics?

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Unusual algebra problem (having trouble understanding the explanation)

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Graduate Can a topologically bounded set in a tvs contain a ray?

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Undergrad Is the set of prime pairs (p, p+2) finite?

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Prove there exists a matrix with certain entries and determinant

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Linear Dependency: Find x for a,b,c in R3

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Graduate Can Different Access Patterns Improve a Matrix's Condition Number?

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Linear Dependence of Vectors Spanning a Space: Example Needed

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Graduate Number of unique ways of stacking n blocks

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Undergrad New to Linear Algebra: Confused on Reduced Row Echelon Form

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Undergrad How do I properly set up the matrix for polynomial regression?

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High School Vectors - write ordered triples in vertical or horizontal form?

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Graduate Questions about Proving R/I is not the Zero Ring

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Graduate The Spectral Theorem in Complex and Real Inner Product Space

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High School A Few Numbers With Strange Qualities

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Undergrad Some technical questions about spans and bases

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High School Understanding 3x3 Matrices: An Overview

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Graduate Rank of a matrix and max number of missing values

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Graduate Transition Matrices: Solving X[T]X & T(v_1)=v_2

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High School Why do we choose to have perpendicular axis?

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Question about Linear Dependency

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High School Very basic question about vector orientation

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Graduate Complexity of a quadratic program

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Linear Dependency: Proving Vector Independence in V

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Undergrad Minimum table size to contain combinations 000 to 999 in adjacent squares

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Graduate How can matrices be used as a basis for linear mappings?

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Graduate Finding the Equation of a Plane in R3 Using Intersection Points and Distances

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Undergrad What is the proof of this theorem in Vector Spaces ?

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Graduate New idea about Integer Factorization

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Graduate What Is a Pseudo-Orthogonal Matrix?

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Graduate Understanding 2-Transitivity in Multiply Transitive Groups

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Graduate Finite Difference Method, Leapfrog (2,4) CFL Condition

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Undergrad General algorithm for a magic square

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Graduate If V is a complex inner product and T is an operator on V such that <Tv,v> = 0

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Graduate Proving Diagonalizability of Adjoint Operator on Finite Inner Product Space

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Automorphism of order 2 fixing just identity. Prove that G is abelian.

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Proving the Inverse of the Adjoint Matrix Property for nxn Matrices

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Undergrad Can m(m+1) Equal kn for Natural Numbers m, k, and n?

  • physics kiddy
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Graduate Inner Product Space of two orthogonal Vectors is 0 , Is this defined as it is ?

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Undergrad Understanding the Usefulness of Vector Projection

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Graduate Some ideas concerning the Goldbach conjecture

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Graduate Explicit solution. Properties of vector norms

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Repeated eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix

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Graduate Equality of Operators A & B on Hilbert Space H

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Graduate About interesting convergence of Riemann Zeta Function

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Undergrad Why do we need to convert to a diagonal matrix?

  • matqkks
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Graduate How can we use the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) for image compression?

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Graduate NxN-complex matrix, identified 2Nx2N-real matrix, determinant

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Graduate Repeated eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix

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Graduate What do we mean by 'Equivalent Projective representation ?

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Graduate Every feild has a subset isomorphic to rational numbers?

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Graduate Puzzled about characteristic polynomial output from my calc

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Graduate Is This Quadratic Form Positive Definite or Indefinite?

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Undergrad How does the change of basis theorem work in linear algebra?

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Undergrad Intuitive explanation for the general determinant formula?

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Graduate Eigenvalues of a complex symmetric matrix

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Graduate Infinite ring with exactly two non trivial maximal ideals

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Undergrad Orthogonal set - Geometric interpretation

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