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A note on the independence of the axioms for a vector space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

A. J. Van Der Poorten
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales
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It is customary to define a vector space in some such manner as: A vector space over a field F is a set V of elements a, b, … called vectors, having the following properties: For arbitrary a, b, c ∈ V; λ, μ ∈ F.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1967

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