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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2023 Prelims Mathematics I 2 b i Solution by
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Use basis extension to choose a basis of the vector space over the finite field . The condition fixes the first value of a linear functional; its remaining values are arbitrary. There are such linear maps, exactly one of which is zero. Hence the required number isFor this is zero, as it should be: vanishing at a basis vector then forces the entire linear functional to vanish.
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