The theory of determinants in the historical order of development, by Sir Thomas Muir.

CHAPTER VII.
WRONSKIANS, FROM 1838 TO 1860.
THE previous history of Wronskians being not at all lengthy,
was included in the chapter on "Miscellaneous Special Forms"
(History, i. chap. xvi.), and is to be found there under Wronski
1812, Wronski 1815, Wronski 1816-17, and Schweins 1825
(pp. 472-478, 482-485).
The name dates only from 1882, being first suggested on p. 224
of my Text-book on Determinants.*
LIOUVILLE, J. (1838).
[Note sur la theorie de la variation des constantes arbitraires.
Journ. (de Liouville) de Math., iii. pp. 342-347.]
The Wronskian which incidentally appears here is of a special
kind, namely, that in which the originating functions are in the
so-called relation of being first differential-quotients of one and
the same function, for example, in later notation,
ax?x ax
'ct Db Dc
32X 312 3a2
~2x D2x D2x
Daat abat DcDt
a3x 3x Z3x
Daat2 Dbat2 Dcat2
It is worthy of note also that the expression for the differential* MUIR, TH. A Treatise on the Theory of Determinants,.. viii + 240 pp.,
London.