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by amelius 1727 days ago
On the first page they say "if neither a or b are 0", but they haven't defined what it means for a vector to be 0.

Also, they say "rank 1 matrix", but they haven't defined the concept of rank yet.

Some readers might find this kind of presentation acceptable, but personally I strongly dislike it when concepts are used before they are defined.

2 comments

To be fair, it does not look like this text is intended to be a self-contained introduction to linear algebra.
The concept of an additive zero is built into what it means to be a vector space though.