Matrices and Determinoids: v. 3, Pt. 1

Originally published in 1925, this book forms part of a three-volume work created to expand upon the content of a series of lectures delivered at the University of Calcutta during the winter of 1909-10. The chief feature of all three volumes is that they deal with rectangular matrices and determinoids as distinguished from square matrices and determinants, the determinoid of a rectangular matrix being related to it in the same way as a determinant is related to a square matrix. An attempt is made to set forth a complete and consistent theory or calculus of rectangular matrices and determinoids. The third volume was originally intended to be divided into two parts, but the second section was never published. The part that made it into print deals chiefly with applications to vector analysis and the theory of invariants.20. The irresoluble and irreducible factors of rational integral functions; 21. Resultants and eliminants of rational integral functions and equations; 22. Symmetric functions of the elements of similar sequences; 23. The potent divisors of a rational integral functional matrix; 24. Equipotent transformations of rational integral functional matrices; 25. Rational integral functions of a square matrix; 26. Equimutant transformations of a square matrix whose elements are constants; 27. Commutants; 28. Commutants of commutants; 29. Invariant transformands; Appendix A. Rational integral functions of a matrix which is not square; Appendix B. Some properties of a standardised general compound slope M; Appendix C. Weierstrauss's and Kronecker's reductions of a matrix which is homogeneous and linear in two scalar variables or linear in a single scalar variable; Index.