Timeline for Vandermonde's remarkably clever notation for determinants
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Mar 16, 2019 at 12:06 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Oct 19, 2016 at 14:15 | comment | added | Filippo Alberto Edoardo | @CarloBeenakker: Indeed, thanks! It is typographically beautiful, again. | |
Oct 5, 2016 at 12:22 | vote | accept | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | ||
Sep 29, 2016 at 19:34 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | @FilippoAlbertoEdoardo --- I presume the other Vandermonde article you are looking for is here | |
Sep 29, 2016 at 10:15 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | @FilippoAlbertoEdoardo --- Laplace = Marquis de la Place = Le Comte Laplace, both spellings with and without a space between "La" and "Place" were used concurrently, compare this reference from 1829 and this other reference from 1814. | |
Sep 29, 2016 at 8:43 | comment | added | Filippo Alberto Edoardo | @MarianoSuárez-Álvarez Thanks, but I was unable to find it and would be happy to look at, do you have a references e.g. to the page? Also: I see that the paper after Vandermonde's (beginning on page 533) is by some M. De La Place: is he the mathematician eventually called Laplace? When did the switch happen? | |
Sep 29, 2016 at 2:49 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | @filippo, on the same volume there is another paper by Vandermonde which is a typographical tour de force. | |
Sep 28, 2016 at 12:39 | comment | added | Filippo Alberto Edoardo | Non-mathematical comment: I find it awesome to look at that typography! If one considers that it dates back to $1772$ and that nowadays, with LaTeX and all the rests, there are editors complaining if one creates too bizarre, or too unusual, a symbol—well, this makes me think that the beautiful art of typography is getting lost. I find it sad. | |
Sep 28, 2016 at 11:28 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | @MarianoSuárez-Álvarez --- added link to the French original, with screenshot. (I had some difficulty finding it, because in the 2010 article it is cited as from the 1771 volume, whereas actually it is from the 1772 volume, with a 1771 submission date.) | |
Sep 28, 2016 at 11:27 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Sep 28, 2016 at 8:56 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | I' d guess that the remarkable notation is that of the second screen shot (which is surely of a translation! I am not being able to get Gallica to give me the pages) | |
Sep 28, 2016 at 8:38 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | @IvanIzmestiev --- Thanks for the feedback, I added a screen shot from Vandermonde's paper where he uses this notation for matrix elements to construct determinants. | |
Sep 28, 2016 at 8:37 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Sep 28, 2016 at 8:11 | comment | added | Ivan Izmestiev | This is rather a notation for the entries of a matrix. So maybe MacTutor is stating this not quite correctly? | |
Sep 28, 2016 at 6:37 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Sep 28, 2016 at 6:28 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |