Subspace dimension is smaller

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created: 2021-11-14 02:43:09
modified: 2022-01-10 04:13:04

Let be a subspace of the finite-dimensional vector space .
Then

Where means dimension.

Proof

This is implied by the fact that the basis of a subspace can be extended to a basis of the vector space.