The Span is a Subspace | Proof + Visualization

The Span of two vectors - ie all linear combinations of them - turns out to be a subspace. That is, it is closed under scalar multiplication, vector addition, and contains the zero vector. Geometrically, it sweeps out a plane (except if the vectors are multiplies of one another or the zero vector).

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This video was created by Dr. Trefor Bazett, an Assistant Professor, Educator at the University of Cincinnati.

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[VolumetricTerrain-hzci]

There are unknown way to visualize subspace, or vector spaces.

You can stretching the width of the x axis, for example, in the right line of a 3d stereo image, and also get depth, as shown below.

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This because the z axis uses x to get depth. Which means that you can get double depth to the image.... 4d depth??? :O

p.s
You're good teacher!

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[CanDoSo_org]

span{a, b} is a 2-d plane, how about span{a, b, c}? The whole 3-d space?

[Adam-gwjt]

Can somebody explain why proving the 3 cases prove that the span must be a subspace? Like I don't understand the relationship between it.

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name of the software you use in digram?

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