Prove that whenever A and B are matrices for which AB is defined, then (B^T)(A^T) is also defined. Then show (AB)^T=(B^T)(A^T). (transpose)
8 years agoSo what does it mean AB is defined?
8 years agoI'm guessing, if A is an m x n matrix and B is an n x p matrix
8 years ago...then AB will be defined as the m x p matrix
8 years agoWell my book says the transpose of a product of any number of matrices is the product of the tranposes in the reverse order.
8 years agomy prof always starts of a proof asking "What do we know"
8 years agoSo we know that AB is defined
8 years agoI guess i'm having trouble understanding this whole "ijth" entry thing, I didn't understand it much in lecture and my book doesn't expand
8 years agocan you tell me what topic it is?
8 years agon-Dimensional Geometry: Matrix Multiplication the book says that the matrix product AB is the mxp matrix whose ijth entry is the dot product of the ith row of A and the jth column of B (considered as vectors in R^n)
8 years agocheck out this webpage it explains matrix multiplication in easy to understand language http://www.purplemath.com/modules/mtrxmult.htm
8 years agothank you!
8 years agoyou're welcome
8 years agodid that help?
8 years agoa little, i looked into my book a bit more and convinced myself that the ijth entry of AB is \[\sum_{k}^{n}\] \[a _{ik}b _{kj}\] , which equals the jith entry of \[B ^{T}A ^{T}\] which is \[\sum_{k}^{n} b _{kj}a _{ik}\]
8 years ago