Quadratic matrix/Rank/Invertible/Linearly independent/Fact
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          Let be a field, and let denote an -matrix over . Then the following statements are equivalent.
- is invertible.
- The rank of is .
- The rows of are linearly independent.
- The columns of are linearly independent.