Thursday, July 09, 2009

Your dose of math nonsense of the day.

  • A system of linear equations has either one, infinitely many or no solution(s).

  • The link between rank and linear independence is one of the most amazing aspects of linear algebra. The rank shows how many linearly independent column/row vectors a matrix has.

  • Two vectors are linearly independent iff they do not lie on the same line.

  • All real numbers are linearly dependent – they can be expressed as linear combination of each other; scalar multiples of each other and/or multiples of one (the latter being the case of primes).

  • Imaginary numbers are of general form α + βi where i is the square root of negative one. Imaginary numbers come in conjugate pairs.

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