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ERIC Number: EJ875486
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 3
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0740-8404
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Cramer's Rule Revisited
Ayoub, Ayoub B.
AMATYC Review, v27 n1 p22-24 Fall 2005
In 1750, the Swiss mathematician Gabriel Cramer published a well-written algebra book entitled "Introduction a l'Analyse des Lignes Courbes Algebriques." In the appendix to this book, Cramer gave, without proof, the rule named after him for solving a linear system of equations using determinants (Kosinki, 2001). Since then several derivations of this rule have appeared (Chadha, 1996; Larson et al., 2004; Shirm & Adams, 2002). In this article, the author will introduce another proof of Cramer's rule based on the expansion in cofactors of a determinant.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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