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Page 192 - There is again, however, an oversight here, for the element aa is taken to be equal to 0, whereas it is only necessarily so in the second case. BALTZER (1857). [THEORIE UND ANWENDUNG DER DETERMINANTEN. Mit Beziehung auf die Originalquellen. Dargestellt von Dr. Richard Baltzer. vi + 129 pp. Leipzig, 1857.] Following his two predecessors Baltzer also assigned a separate section of his text-book to skew determinants, but without giving them any special designation of his own or even taking over that...