Why do we care if a set forms a basis?

Kevin Charles

Kevin Charles

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2022-10-26

Why do we care if a set forms a basis?

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We care because mathematicians are inherently lazy, and having basis usually enables you to check things for a very small number of cases while being able to generalize to the whole space...
Take linear transformations as an example. If you know how a linear transformation behaves for the basis vectors, you automatically know how it behaves for the whole space.

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