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bugatti79
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Hi Folks,
I find this link http://mathworld.wolfram.com/VectorSpaceBasis.html confusing regarding linear independence.
One of the requirement for a basis of a vector space is that the vectors in a set S are linearly independent and so this implies that the vector cannot be written in terms of the other vectors in the set S.
Yet on the first paragraph it states that the vectors form a basis if and only if every vector can be uniquely written as a linear combination of the other which to me is a contradiction!
Can someone clarify my misinterpretation
regards
I find this link http://mathworld.wolfram.com/VectorSpaceBasis.html confusing regarding linear independence.
One of the requirement for a basis of a vector space is that the vectors in a set S are linearly independent and so this implies that the vector cannot be written in terms of the other vectors in the set S.
Yet on the first paragraph it states that the vectors form a basis if and only if every vector can be uniquely written as a linear combination of the other which to me is a contradiction!
Can someone clarify my misinterpretation
regards