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    The history of matrices dates back to ancient times, though the term "matrix" was not introduced until 1850. Early Chinese mathematical texts from 300 BC to 200 AD, such as the Nine Chapters of the Mathematical Art, gave examples of using matrix methods to solve simultaneous linear equations. More modern uses and terminology for matrices emerged in the 19th century, including their formal definition and naming by James Joseph Sylvester in 1850.

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    The history of matrices dates back to ancient times, though the term "matrix" was not introduced until 1850. Early Chinese mathematical texts from 300 BC to 200 AD, such as the Nine Chapters of the Mathematical Art, gave examples of using matrix methods to solve simultaneous linear equations. More modern uses and terminology for matrices emerged in the 19th century, including their formal definition and naming by James Joseph Sylvester in 1850.

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    The history of matrices dates back to ancient times, though the term "matrix" was not introduced until 1850. Early Chinese mathematical texts from 300 BC to 200 AD, such as the Nine Chapters of the Mathematical Art, gave examples of using matrix methods to solve simultaneous linear equations. More modern uses and terminology for matrices emerged in the 19th century, including their formal definition and naming by James Joseph Sylvester in 1850.

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    The history of matrices goes back to

    ancient times! But the term "matrix"


    was not applied to the concept until
    1850.
    "Matrix" is the Latin word for womb, and it retains that sense in
    English. It can also mean more generally any place in which
    something is formed or produced.

    The orgins of mathematical matrices lie with the study of


    systems of simultaneous linear equations. An important Chinese
    text from between 300 BC and AD 200, Nine Chapters of the
    Mathematical Art (Chiu Chang Suan Shu), gives the first known
    example of the use of matrix methods to solve simultaneous
    equations.
    In the treatise's seventh chapter, "Too much and not enough,"
    the concept of a determinant first appears, nearly two millennia
    before its supposed invention by the Japanese
    mathematician Seki Kowa in 1683 or his German
    contemporary Gottfried Leibnitz (who is also credited with the
    invention of differential calculus, separately from but
    simultaneously with Isaac Newton).
    More uses of matrix-like arrangements of numbers appear in
    chapter eight, "Methods of rectangular arrays," in which a
    method is given for solving simultaneous equations using a
    counting board that is mathematically identical to the modern

    matrix method of solution outlined by Carl Friedrich


    Gauss (1777-1855), also known as Gaussian elimination.
    The term "matrix" for such
    arrangements was introduced in
    1850 by James Joseph Sylvester.

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