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2. Continuants—A New Special Class of Determinants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Thomas Muir
Thomas Muir
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Assistant to the Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow.
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A determinant which has the elements lying outside the principal diagonal and the two bordering minor diagonals each equal to zero, and which has the elements of one of these minor diagonals each equal to negative unity, may be called a Continuant.

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Proceedings 1873-74
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 8 , 1875 , pp. 229 - 236
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1875

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