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Exercise 12

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Example 2.16 says that for any vector v⃗\vec{v} that is an element of a vector space VV, the set {r⋅v⃗∣r∈R}\{\hskip 1.00006ptr\cdot\vec{v}\mid r\in\mathbb{R}\hskip 1.00006pt\} is a subspace of VV. (This is simply the span of the singleton set {v⃗}\{\hskip 1.00006pt\vec{v}\hskip 1.00006pt\}.) Must any such subspace be a proper subspace?

Hefferon, Linear Algebra, Vector Spaces, Subspaces and Spanning Sets, Exercise 12

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Adapted from Linear Algebra © 2016 Jim Hefferon. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. Source: Linear Algebra. Imported at revision df2262e.