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You think this comment could have been written by someone who doesn’t understand what a vector space is?

Vectors are not purely geometric objects. Geometry is a lens through which we can interpret vectors. So is linear algebra. The objects behave the same and both perspectives give us insights about them.

Insisting vectors are only geometric is like saying complex numbers are geometric because they can be thought of as points on the complex plane.



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