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300 BCE
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
The first appearance of the Gauss-Jordan algorithm. Few details of this development are known due to a tradition of anonymity. -
Isaac Newton
Issac Newton wrote a few notes in which elimination appeared for the first time in Europe. -
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Gottfried Leibniz
At some time during this period, the German mathematician independently developed the concept of the determinant and used it to solve linear systems. -
Seki Kowa
The Japanese mathematician invented the concept of a determinant and anticipated future fundamentals of matrices some time prior to 1683. -
Disquisitio de Elementis ellipticis Palladis
In this work, Carl Friedrich Gauss came up with a method for solving least squares problems. -
Formal Introduction of Matrices
Arthur Carley formally introduces the concept of matrices. -
Wilhelm Jordan's method
Wilhelm Jordan devises a way of reducing matrices to reduced echelon form, similar to Gauss's method. -
Manchester Baby
The elimination method was used in the first stored-program digital computer, the Manchester Baby.