Timeline for Basis of or basis for in mathematics
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| Jul 17, 2018 at 10:32 | vote | accept | Tomlish | ||
| Jul 12, 2018 at 15:50 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | @Tomlish, if it has a narrower meaning in maths than in general English why are you asking in a general English stack,, not one devoted to maths? | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 17:57 | answer | added | user205876 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 13:51 | answer | added | JJJ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 13:47 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I don't agree with the answer you mention; 'the' not 'a' is used. Though I'd say there's not a great deal of difference as regards choice of prepositions, 'of' connotes the finished structure and 'for' the actual building of the structure more strongly. | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 13:33 | comment | added | Tomlish | An example sentence would therefore be "Let B be a basis for/of V". | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 13:29 | comment | added | Tomlish | That was a quote from the accepted answer of the stackexchange question about basis for/basis of, by the way | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 13:28 | comment | added | Tomlish | I'm not asking about base, I'm asking about basis as in the basis of a vector space. The word does not behave completely the same as outside mathematics, as "Forming the basis for could mean it is one of the factors forming the basis" cannot be the case in mathematics. A set either is or is not a basis for some space. | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 13:25 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | What basis are we talking about, exactly? The word basis does behave exactly the same in mathematics as everywhere else, but I have that nagging suspicion you're really asking about the word base. (For which other languages also use basis, but English does not, so this question might be the result of a poor false-friend translation.) For example, the base of a logarithm is always the base of it, never the base for it. And again, never its basis. So please elaborate what it is that you're after, and please supply the exact example sentence(s) you are looking at right now. | |
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| Jul 5, 2018 at 13:14 | history | asked | Tomlish | CC BY-SA 4.0 |