Finite Math
Finite Math
GRADE ELEVEN REVIEWER - FIRST SEMESTER - FINALS
MATRIX (A.)
MATRIX (A.)
- A rectangular array or table of numbers, symbols, or expressions arranged in rows and columns.
- Developed by Arthur Cayley, a British-American mathematician who published Memoirs on the Theory of Matrices in eighteen fifty-eight.
- The word Matrix itself came from Arthur Cayley and Joseph Sylvester in the nineteenth century.
- Sylvester used it to describe an array of numbers that gave rise to different determinants.
- Columns
- Entries / Elements
- Each individual values in a matrix
- Dimensions of Matrices / Order of Matrices
- Refers to the size of the rectangular array, defined by its number of rows and columns.