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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2015 Prelims Mathematics I 1 c ii Solution by
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If , every would satisfy , so would be a surjective linear map. But its image of a linear map has dimension at most , whereas . Therefore no such exists. This is the obstruction to a right inverse: cannot reach every target vector.
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