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After an in-depth study of duality for finite dimensional vector spaces, we prove Jordan’s classification result of nilpotent transformations on a finite dimensional vector space. We also explain how to describe vector subspaces by equations using hyperplanes.
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Andreescu, T. (2014). Duality. In: Essential Linear Algebra with Applications. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4636-3_6
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