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NATURE of October 4 opens with a review of a book on “Determinants” by two pupils of Prof. Valentin Balbin, whose energy and enthusiasm have done so much for mathematics in the University of Buenos Ayres. In regard to the naming of the various special forms of determinants, your reviewer says:—“The nomenclature adopted in the second book differs in some particulars from that employed by Muir. Thus, our authors do not follow him in substituting ‘adjugate’ for the more euphonious and more familiar adjective ‘reciprocal,’ and they agree with Scott and others in calling those determinants ‘orthosymmetrical’ which Muir names ‘persymmetric.’ We think that their name determinate hemisimétrica is a distinct improvement on the old ‘zero-axial skew determinant,’ but …”
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MUIR, T. Nomenclature of Determinants. Nature 38, 589 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038589a0
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