Rank-Nullity Theorem

Let V and W be vector spaces over a field F, and let T:V->W be a linear transformation. Assuming the dimension of V is finite, then

where dim(V) is the dimension of V, Ker is the kernel, and Im is the image.

Note that dim(Ker(T)) is called the nullity of T and dim(Im(T)) is called the rank of T.

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