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We have defined a 1 × n matrix as a row vector and an n × 1 matrix as a column vector. A particularly important application of matrix algebra arises when n = 3, and we are dealing with occurrences in the three-dimensional, real space we live in. A vector is then a quantity with a magnitude and a direction. Let x be the column vector
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Prince, E. (1982). Vectors. In: Mathematical Techniques in Crystallography and Materials Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-25351-9_4
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