Description: Determinant of a square matrix. This definition is based on Leibniz'
Formula (see mdetleib ). The properties of the axiomatic definition
of a determinant according to Weierstrass p. 272 are derived from this
definition as theorems: "The determinant function is the unique
multilinear, alternating and normalized function from the algebra of
square matrices of the same dimension over a commutative ring to this
ring". Functionality is shown by mdetf . Multilineary means "linear
for each row" - the additivity is shown by mdetrlin , the homogeneity
by mdetrsca . Furthermore, it is shown that the determinant function
is alternating (see mdetralt ) and normalized (see mdet1 ).
Finally, uniqueness is shown by mdetuni . As a consequence, the
"determinant of a square matrix" is the function value of the
determinant function for this square matrix, see mdetleib .
(Contributed by Stefan O'Rear, 9-Sep-2015)(Revised by SO, 10-Jul-2018)