A bilinear form is a mathematical function that is bilinear in nature, meaning it is linear in each of its arguments when the other is held fixed.
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Analogous to a linear form, a bilinear form is a Bilinear map where the image is the underlying field of the vector space, e.g. .
Some definitions require both of the input spaces to be the same, e.g. , but it doesn't make much different in general.
The most important example of a bilinear form is the dot product. It is only defined if both the input spaces are the same.