A First Course in Linear Algebra · Problem SSLE.M12

Systems of Linear Equations — Robert Beezer

Mathematics — Linear Algebra · mathematical-language

Problem

The following sentence, due to Noam Chomsky, has a correct grammatical structure, but is meaningless. Critique its faults. ``Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.'' (Chomsky, Noam. Syntactic Structures, The Hague/Paris: Mouton, 1957. p. 15.)

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