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…