When Ax = b has no exact solution, multiplying both sides by A^T yields the normal equations, and A^T A is invertible exactly when A has independent columns.
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Best approximate solution when leaves the column space
Record the noisy-measurement setting and write , obtained by multiplying through by .
is square and symmetric
State both properties, show the symmetry by transposing , and form for the matrix with columns and , reaching entries .
and equal ranks
Write down that and have the same null space, and that follows.
Invertibility criterion for
State that is invertible exactly when has independent columns, and work the rank-1 matrix with columns and , whose is singular.