Laplace expansion - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_expansionIn linear algebra, the Laplace expansion, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, also called cofactor expansion, is an expression of the determinant of an n × n matrix B as a weighted sum of minors, which are the determinants of some (n − 1) × (n − 1) submatrices of B. Specifically, for every i, The term is called the cofactor of in B. The Laplace expansion is often useful in proofs, as in, for example, allowing recursionon the siz…