Introduces ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, vector spaces, linear transformations, and systems of linear differential equations. Prereq., APPM 1360 ...

Chapters 5–7 (pp. 106–235) deal with determinants, introduced for orders 2 and 3 and extended to order n, and with systems of linear equations.

It is strange that no reference is given to the work of Kronecker and others on equations which do admit of algebraic solution. The Theory of Equations: with an Introduction to the Theory of ...