2  Determinant
To every square matrix A = [aij] of order n, we can associate a number (real or
complex) called determinant of the square matrix A, where aij = (i, j)th element of A Chapter 4
DETERMINANTS
P S Laplace
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This may be thought of as a function which associates each square matrix with a
unique number (real or complex)