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Before plunging in to the theory of determinants, we are going to make an attempt at defining them in a more geometric fashion. This works well in low dimensions and will serve to motivate our more algebraic constructions in subsequent sections.
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Petersen, P. (2012). Determinants. In: Linear Algebra. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3612-6_5
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