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

362 HISTORY OF THE THEORY OF DETERMINANTS

1878. BARANIECKI, M. A. On the determination of the common
roots... (In Polish). Pamietnik Towarzystwa Nauk
Scistych (Paryz), x..1879. SODERBLOM, A. Om algebr. equationer och equationscurver.
64 pp. Upsala.
1879. BIEHLER, C. Sur la theorie des equations. Dissert. 60 pp.
Paris.
1879. FALK, M. Sur la methode de l'1limination de Bezout et
Cauchy. Nova Acta Reg. Soc. (Upsala), x. No. 15, 36 pp.
1879. HIoux, V. Note sur la methode d'elimination BezoutCauchy. Nouv. Annales de Math., (2) xviii. pp. 289-295.
1879. MANSION, P. Sur l'elimination. Bull.... Acad.... Belgique,
(2) xlvii. pp. 532-541; xlviii. pp. 463-472, 473-490,
491-526. Also separately, 64 pp., Paris, 1884.
The papers of Falk and Mansion devote some little space to
reviewing the work of their predecessors, and are therefore additionally helpful. They do not, however, mention Trudi, nor indeed does
any one of the other writers of that period.
It may be noted as a significant fact in connection with the
history of the subject that in 1876 the editors of the Nouvelles
AnnaTes found themselves called on to republish Cauchy's important
paper of 1840 (see Hist., i. pp. 240-243). Its reprint occupies
pp. 385-416, 433-451 of vol. xv. of the second series. On this
account, save for junior readers, the 'exposition succincte' above
noted was quite unnecessary.