How to prove that the set $\{\sin(x),\sin(2x),...,\sin(mx)\}$ is linearly independent? Could you help me to show that the functions $\sin(x),\sin(2x),...,\sin(mx)\in V$ are linearly independent, where $V$ is the space of real functions?
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Let $D$ be the differentiation operator. It is a linear transformation.
$D^2 \sin(kx) = -k^2 \sin(kx)$, so $\sin(kx)$ is an eigenfunction (i.e. an eigenvector when the vector space is a space of functions) of $D^2$ with eigenvalue $-k^2$.
Since each of the eigenvalues $-1, -4, -9, \cdots, -m^2$ are distinct, the eigenfunctions must be linearly independent.
