Rudin 1976, tr. 206. A mapping A of a vector space X into a vector space Y is said to be a linear transformation if: for all and all scalars c. Note that one often writes instead of if A is linear. Rudin, Walter (1976). Principles of Mathematical Analysis. Walter Rudin Student Series in Advanced Mathematics (ấn bản thứ 3). New York: McGraw–Hill. ISBN978-0-07-054235-8.
Rudin 1976, tr. 210
Suppose and are bases of vector spaces X and Y, respectively. Then every determines a set of numbers such that
It is convenient to represent these numbers in a rectangular array of rows and columns, called an bymatrix:
Observe that the coordinates of the vector (with respect to the basis ) appear in the jth column of . The vectors are therefore sometimes called the column vectors of . With this terminology, the range of Ais spanned by the column vectors of . Rudin, Walter (1976). Principles of Mathematical Analysis. Walter Rudin Student Series in Advanced Mathematics (ấn bản thứ 3). New York: McGraw–Hill. ISBN978-0-07-054235-8.