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Cartan-Dieudonne theorem (Wikipedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%E2%80%93Dieudonn%C3%A9_theorem
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Cartan-Dieudonne theorem (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, the Cartan-Dieudonné theorem, named after Élie Cartan and Jean Dieudonné, establishes that every orthogonal transformation in an n-dimensional symmetric bilinear space can be described as the composition of at most n reflections.
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