spanning set

consider the vector space , let , then is a spanning set of and is a finitely spanned set
  • because the third vector is the sum of the first two which makes it a linear combination of them
which means the first set is a spanning set but the second isnt
is spanned by the set :
is spanned by the following vectors:
is the space of polynomials over the field with a single polynomial
isnt finitely spanned, to prove this, we assume in contradiction that the set spans
a linear combination of polynomials cant give us a degree that is higher than the degree of the polynomial with the highest degree in said linear combination, we write:
let be the polynomial with the highest degree, , we know by necessity because contains all the polynomials over the field
let be a vector space over the field , and let be sets of vectors, then
if is finitely spanned, if then is finitely spanned too