Let K {\displaystyle {}K} be a field, and let V 1 , … , V n {\displaystyle {}V_{1},\ldots ,V_{n}} and W {\displaystyle {}W} be vector spaces over K {\displaystyle {}K} . Let
be a multilinear mapping, and let v i 1 , … , v i m i ∈ V i {\displaystyle {}v_{i1},\ldots ,v_{im_{i}}\in V_{i}} and a i j ∈ K {\displaystyle {}a_{ij}\in K} for i = 1 , … , n {\displaystyle {}i=1,\ldots ,n} and j = 1 , … , m i {\displaystyle {}j=1,\ldots ,m_{i}} . Show that
holds.