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Past exam of the algebra 1 and differential equations 1 course of the University of Oxford 2015 3 a ii Solution by
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Define the bidual evaluation map by evaluation:For fixed , this is a linear functional of , so it belongs to the double dual. It is also linear as a function of . If , some coordinate of in a basis is nonzero, and the corresponding dual basis functional detects it. Hence , proving injectivity.
The spaces all have the same finite dimension. Therefore an injective linear map is surjective, proving the required linear isomorphism.
This linear isomorphism is natural because evaluation requires no basis. More explicitly, for any linear map , its dual map satisfiesso .
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