A Treatise on the Theory of Determinants and their Applications in Analysis and Geometry

Abstract

THE list of English text-books on the subject of Determinants is comparatively meagre, and this notwithstanding the fact that the first separate treatise of all on the subject was the work of an Englishman, now the distinguished president of the Royal Society. Dr. Spottis-woode's “Elementary Theorems Relating to Determinants” appeared in 1851 (4to, pp. viii. + 63, London, Longmans), and, as a pioneer work, was eminently successful; at the honouring request of the editor of Crelle it was republished, with additions, in that well-known journal three or four years later (vol. li. pp. 209–271, 328–381). After considerable intervals came Dodgson's “Elementary Treatise” (London, Macmillan, 1867) and a pamphlet by Wright; and here, until quite recently, the list ended. The chapters on the subject by Tod-hunter and others belong to a different category, but deserve to be mentioned, as it is doubtless in part owing to their existence that separate treatises have been so rare.

A Treatise on the Theory of Determinants and their Applications in Analysis and Geometry.

By Robert Forsyth Scott (Cambridge: At the University Press.)