Determinant - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeterminantThe determinant can be characterized by the following three key properties. To state these, it is convenient to regard an -matrix A as being composed of its columns, so denoted as where the column vector (for each i) is composed of the entries of the matrix in the i-th column. 1. , where is an identity matrix.2. The determinant is multilinear: if the jth column of a matrix is written as a linear combination of two column vectorsv and w and a number r, then the determina…
Determinants - Yale University
https://users.math.yale.edu/~td276/412/solution2.pdfUse the Leibniz formula to give an explicit formula for the determinant of a 4x4-matrix. (This should be a sum of 24 products, since #S 4 = 24). Solution. det(A) = a 11a 22a 33a 44 +a 11a 32a 43a 24 +a 11a 42a 23a 34 +a 21a 12a 43a 34 +a 21a 32a 13a 44 +a 21a 42a 33a 14 +a 31a 12a 23a 44 +a 31a 22a 43a 14 +a 31a 42a 13a 24 +a 41a 12a 33a 24 +a ...