Properties of Determinants

MIT 18.06SC Linear Algebra, Fall 2011
Instructor: Ana Rita Pires

A teaching assistant works through a problem on properties of determinants.

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

[quirkyquester]

this is love the steps by steps explanation. Thank you Ana and MIT OCWWWW!

[hkjeon]

Very simple but perfect explanation!!! I love it!!

[abdelaziz]

i liked ur explantation specially in the last one, great job!

[salami-vt]

wow what a great video! Your explanations are straight to the point. well done!

[lastmiles]

The Vanermonde det had me bothered and after three pages of notes I brute force expressed the det of matrix B with no elimination steps to get a nice long expression that looks clever ( ) and yet the result in the video is trivial (b-a)(c-a)(c-b). However both expressions should be equal. I don't see it really.

[pandaonsteroids]

Very good. Hopefully helps on my exam today.

[luojihencha]

You are much more clear than that dude

[andreas_gswerve]

can i exchange row in last example and through elimination i get 0s in rows so det=0?

[yaweli]

Couldn’t the last step be (b-c) too instead of c-b ?

[sinan]

are you kidding? 2:32 I was shocked. This is the first time I saw this. THX