Lewis Carroll Identity

In linear algebra, the Lewis Carroll identity is an identity involving minors of a square matrix proved by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll), who used it in a method of numerical evaluation of matrix determinants called the Dodgson condensation. From the modern perspective, the Lewis Carroll identity expresses a straightening law in the algebra of polynomial functions of matrices.

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