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The characterisation of direct sums given in Theorem 2.5 opens the door to a deep study of linear mappings on finite-dimensional vector spaces and their representation by matrices. In order to embark on this, we require the following notion.
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Blyth, T.S., Robertson, E.F. (2002). Primary Decomposition. In: Further Linear Algebra. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0661-6_4
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