why is the definition of the determinant so weird?
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What's an intuitive way to think about the determinant?
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Value of Vandermonde type determinant
23030
Calculating determinant with different numbers on diagonal and x everywhere else
1086
What is the physical significance of dot & cross product of vectors? Why is division not defined for vectors?
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Row swap changing sign of determinant
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Why can the cross product of two vectors be calculated as the determinant of a matrix?
155537
Intuition of the cyclic trace property of matrix products and relation to the determinant?
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Why is the determinant useful when finding eigenvectors?
81770
Determinant of an $n\times n$ complex matrix as an $2n\times 2n$ real determinant
121358
What is the exact relation between a full rank matrix and its determinant?
127085
Bound on the difference of two determinants
45658
Determinant of a special $n\times n$ matrix
60473
Efficient algorithm for calculating determinants
30836
Derivative of a determinant whose entries are functions
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A determinant coming out from the computation of a volume form
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Oddity: Determinant of Skew-Symmetric $n\times n$ Matrices
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Prove the determinant is the product of its diagonal entries