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Matrices are a very classical tabular form to represent data, for example in accounting. They are built from columns that are juxtaposed and can be split horizontally into a stack of rows. The novelty in mathematics is that matrices that are built from numbers can be used to perform calculations that are of general benefit to mathematics.
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Mazzola, G., Mannone, M., Pang, Y. (2016). Matrices. In: Cool Math for Hot Music. Computational Music Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42937-3_26
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