Paper 1, Section I, G
Part IB, 2009
(1) Let be a finite-dimensional vector space and let be a non-zero endomorphism of . If show that the dimension of is an even integer. Find the minimal polynomial of . [You may assume the rank-nullity theorem.]
(2) Let , be non-zero subspaces of a vector space with the property that
Show that there is a 2-dimensional subspace for which all the are one-dimensional.