History of Basis

	Revision 8 . . August 16, 2001 9:59 pm by Zundark [make definition more general]
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Basis is an ordinary English word that has an important technical definition in mathematics, as follows: the basis for an n-dimensional vector space is any linearly independent set of n vectors that spans that space.

Basis is an ordinary English word that has an important technical definition in mathematics, as follows: a basis for a vector space is any linearly independent set of vectors that spans the space.