Linear Algebra Done Right · Problem 1C.13

Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces — Sheldon Axler

Mathematics — Linear Algebra · subspaces

Problem

Prove that the union of three subspaces of VV is a subspace of VV if and only if one of the subspaces contains the other two. This exercise is surprisingly harder than Exercise 12, possibly because this exercise is not true if we replace F\mathbf{F} with a field containing only two elements.

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