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

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but the assertion is incorrect,* the number of distinct terms being
2, 36 when n is 1, 2.
PAIGE, C. LE (1880).
[Sur les determinants hemisymetriques d'ordre pair. Sitzungsb...
bohm. Ges. d. Wiss. (Prag), Jahrg. 1880, pp. 125-127.]
[Sur une propriete des d6terminants hemisymetriques d'ordre
pair.t Nouv. Corresp. Math., vi. pp. 155-158.]
The property in question is Cayley's of 1847, but is stated in the
form first reached by Bellavitis in 1857 (Hist., ii. p. 278). The
process of proof is at the outset that adopted by Trudi in 1862
(Hist., ii. pp. 288-289).
*If the coefficient of w,,_2 be changed into 2(n - 1), the two modes of determining
w, will be brought into accord: but this is not all that is wanted.
t The two papers cover almost the same ground.