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by Tainnor 343 days ago
I think you are confused about the analogies at the beginning at the article (although there is nothing technically wrong about them).

Here's the definition of a vector space which agrees with the one everyone in mathematics use: https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/#vector-spaces

From this it's fairly easy to prove (and done in the article) that the set of all functions R->R is a vector space.

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I understand that. The crux of the article is supposedly being able to apply what we learned with easy small vector space to infinite function vector space : we can't. But he's taking the example of polynomials and analytical functions which are MUCH smaller spaces than functions in general.
Yes we can. Several people have tried explaining this to you. Maybe you should sit down and work through the material.
Maybe you could envision that I learned maths a similar way than you and that's why I have problem with this material. It's trying to portray complicated space as simple, they're not