What is the dimension of the space S of all n by n real symmetric matrices? The spectral

Chapter 5, Problem 5.5.15

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What is the dimension of the space S of all n by n real symmetric matrices? The spectral theorem says that every symmetric matrix is a combination of n projection matrices. Since the dimension exceeds n, how is this difference explained?

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