Vector Spaces

Definition

a non-empty set equipped with:

  1. a rule for adding any two vectors
  2. a rule for scalar multiplication

such that the following axioms hold.

Axioms

Closure

  • if v1,v2Vv_1, v_2 \in V then, v1+v2Vv_1 + v_2 \in V
  • if uV,cRu \in V, c \in \R then cuVcu \in V