determinant

Summary

determinant ranks in the top 0.92% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,461 views/month, #715 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• determinant is a type of similarity invariance^[2].
• determinant is a type of alternating multilinear map^[3].
• determinant's Commons category is recorded as Determinant^[4].
• determinant's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Determinants^[5].
• determinant's notation is recorded as vertical bar brackets^[6].
• determinant's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[7].
• determinant's described by source is recorded as ISO 80000-2:2019 Quantities and units — Part 2: Mathematics^[8].
• determinant's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[9].
• determinant's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[10].
• determinant's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[11].
• determinant's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://math.stackexchange.com/tags/determinant^[12].
• determinant's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://mathoverflow.net/tags/determinants^[13].
• determinant's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/tags/determinant^[14].
• determinant's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/determinants^[15].
• determinant's definition domain is recorded as set of complex n×n matrices^[16].
• determinant's codomain is recorded as set of complex numbers^[17].
• determinant's partial function domain is recorded as set of complex n×n matrices^[18].
• determinant's studied by is recorded as linear algebra^[19].
• determinant's studied by is recorded as Q114720351^[20].
• determinant's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[21].
• determinant's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[22].
• determinant's invariant under is recorded as matrix transposition^[23].
• determinant's invariant under is recorded as change of basis^[24].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include similarity invariance^[2] and alternating multilinear map^[3].

Why It Matters

determinant ranks in the top 0.92% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,461 views/month, #715 of 77,819).^[1] determinant has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[25] determinant is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[26]