You can use a transformation/function to map from one set to another, but can you invert it? In other words, is there a function/transformation that given the output of the original mapping, can output the original input (this is much clearer with diagrams). This tutorial addresses this question in a linear algebra context. Since matrices can represent linear transformations, we're going to spend a lot of time thinking about matrices that represent the inverse transformation.
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6945_Simplifying_conditions_for_invertibility.html
6939_Proof_Invertibility_implies_a_unique_solution_to_f_x_y.html
6946_Showing_that_inverses_are_linear.html
6944_Matrix_condition_for_one_to_one_transformation.html
6940_Surjective_onto_and_injective_one_to_one_functions.html
6941_Relating_invertibility_to_being_onto_and_one_to_one.html
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