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In this chapter we introduce the notion of a vector space over \(\mathbb {R}\) or \(\mathbb {C}\) and of maps between such spaces which respect to their structure. Maps of this type are referred to as linear maps.
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Benz, M., Kappeler, T. (2023). Vector Spaces and Linear Maps. In: Linear Algebra for the Sciences. UNITEXT(), vol 151. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27220-2_4
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