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300 BCE
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
Authored in China and was the first place the elimination method appeared. -
650
Magic Square
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Issac Newton
Issac Newton wrote notes which described the method and was the first to do so in Europe. -
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gauss devised an algorithm to solve least-squares problems and referred to the method as "commonly known". -
Gauss-Seidel algorithm
A finer method which was used for his work on the triangulation of Hanover. -
Arthur Cayley
Matrices were introduced into mathematics -
Wilhelm Jordan
Jordan wrote a method for elimination for transforming a matrix into reduced echelon form -
B.-I. Clasen
B.-I. Clasen wrote a similar method as Jordan in the same year. -
Manchester Baby
The method of elimination was also implemented in the first stored-program digital computer. -
Current uses
The Guass-Jordan Elimination Method is now currently used in mathematics classes such as algebra 1, algebra 2, linear algebra, etc. to solve systems of linear equations.