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THE history of the mathematical term “matrix” is likely to be very interesting. Its original meaning was an array of symbols (amn) forming a rectangle of m rows and columns, out of which determinants were selected by picking out columns (or rows) of the array. A square matrix gives only one associated determinant, but a square matrix is not the same thing as a determinant.
University of Calcutta: Readership Lectures: Matrices and Determirioids.
By Prof. C. E. Cullis. Vol. ii. Pp. xxiii + 555. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1918.) Price 42s. net.
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M., G. University of Calcutta: Readership Lectures: Matrices and Determirioids . Nature 105, 191–192 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105191a0
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