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Determinant Expansions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

A Set of numbers aij (called elements) arranged in a rectangular array of m rows and n columns constitutes a matrix of orders m × n. For example, of the arrays

the first is a matrix of two rows and three columns, i.e. of orders 2 × 3, the second is a square matrix of orders 3 × 3.

From a square matrix of orders n × n we can form a determinant of order n. Thus from the above square matrix we can form the determinant of order 3

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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1941 

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References

page no 132 note * Rice, L. H. (American Jour. of Math. 42, p. 237 (1920))CrossRefGoogle Scholar. This remarkable and general theorem appears to have been overlooked by writers on determinants.

page no 134 note * Albeggiani, M. (Giornale di Mat., 13, p. 1 (1874))Google Scholar. The proof which follows is due to Rice, loc. cit.