by glenster 16 Replies latest social entertainment
His opinion of some of the posts here of calculations about the past and future,
etc., aren't given, but I could guess.
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/entertainment/weird_news/12-year-old-genius-takes-aim-as-disproving-einsteins-theory-of-relativity
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit
Jacob on the death of a star
Astonishingly smart kid.
When he gets a little older, somebody needs to tell him he should dumb it down a bit or he will never get laid 
Now I had to look up when matrices and determinants first were used.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~vitulli/441.sp04/LinAlgHistory.html
Leibnitz, one of the two founders of calculus, used determinants in 1693 and Cramer presented his determinant-based formula for solving systems of linear equations (today known as Cramer's Rule) in 1750. In contrast, the first implicit use of matrices occurred in Lagrange's work on bilinear forms in the late 1700s.