Fundamentals of Matrix Algebra, 2011a
Fundamentals of Matrix Algebra, 2011a
Fundamentals of Matrix Algebra, 2011a
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5.2 Properes <strong>of</strong> Linear Transformaons<br />
leads us to an important theorem. The first part we have essenally just proved; the<br />
second part we won’t prove, although its truth is very powerful.<br />
.<br />
Ṫheorem 21<br />
Matrices and Linear Transformaons<br />
.<br />
1. Define T : R n → R m by T(⃗x) = A⃗x, where A is an<br />
m × n matrix. Then T is a linear transformaon.<br />
2. Let T : R n → R m be any linear transformaon. Then<br />
there exists an unique m×n matrix A such that T(⃗x) =<br />
A⃗x.<br />
The second part <strong>of</strong> the theorem says that all linear transformaons can be described<br />
using matrix mulplicaon. Given any linear transformaon, there is a matrix<br />
that completely defines that transformaon. This important matrix gets its own name.<br />
.<br />
Ḋefinion 30<br />
Standard <strong>Matrix</strong> <strong>of</strong> a Linear Transformaon<br />
.<br />
Let T : R n → R m be a linear transformaon. By Theorem<br />
21, there is a matrix A such that T(⃗x) = A⃗x. This matrix A<br />
is called the standard matrix <strong>of</strong> the linear transformaon T,<br />
and is denoted [ T ]. a<br />
a The matrix–like brackets around T suggest that the standard matrix A<br />
is a matrix “with T inside.”<br />
While exploring all <strong>of</strong> the ramificaons <strong>of</strong> Theorem 21 is outside the scope <strong>of</strong> this<br />
text, let it suffice to say that since 1) linear transformaons are very, very important<br />
in economics, science, engineering and mathemacs, and 2) the theory <strong>of</strong> matrices is<br />
well developed and easy to implement by hand and on computers, then 3) it is great<br />
news that these two concepts go hand in hand.<br />
We have already used the second part <strong>of</strong> this theorem in a small way. In the previous<br />
secon we looked at transformaons graphically and found the matrices that<br />
produced them. At the me, we didn’t realize that these transformaons were linear,<br />
but indeed they were.<br />
This brings us back to the movang example with which we started this secon.<br />
We tried to find the matrix that translated the unit square one unit to the right. Our<br />
aempt failed, and we have yet to determine why. Given our link between matrices<br />
and linear transformaons, the answer is likely “the translaon transformaon is not<br />
a linear transformaon.” While that is a true statement, it doesn’t really explain things<br />
all that well. Is there some way we could have recognized that this transformaon<br />
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