linear algebra

Pascal’s Determinant

5 minute read

Tamas Gorbe posted the preceding tweet a few days ago and it caught my attention for two reasons. First, I’ve been doing a lot of linear algebra recently…

3x3 Determinant

3 minute read

There are definitely more general and less messy ways to derive the 3x3 matrix determinant (breaking it apart using the linearity property and finding the ...

Ratios vs determinants

1 minute read

Today’s post regards a small conceptual improvement.  It all started with the following problem which caused some trouble for the kids: