avoided or detected as errors.

History

The study of singular matrices is rooted in the early history of linear algebra. Determinants were first developed in Japan by Seki in 1683 and in Europe by Leibniz and Cramer in the 1690s as tools for solving systems of equations. Leibniz explicitly recognized that a system has a solution precisely when a certain determinant expression equals zero. In that

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