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Definition of Alternants
1. alternant [n] - See also: alternant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alternants
Literary usage of Alternants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics by Edwin Bailey Elliott (1895)
"Before forming the other alternants we proceed to exhibit the information as to
invariants of the cubic given by these. 285.] Any invariant of the cubic is ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1904)
"Some Identities connected with alternants and with Elliptic Functions. By Professor
WH Metzler. (Read June 2, 190'J.) As is well known, the usual form of ..."
3. The Theory of Determinants in the Historical Order of Development by Thomas Muir (1906)
"alternants FROM THE YEAR 1771 TO 1841. THE first traces of the special functions
now known as alternating functions are said by Cauchy to be discernible in ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on the Theory of Determinants: A Text-book for Colleges by Paul Henry Hanus (1903)
"... alternants. 151. Consider the determinant Д = I HI a, 1 a,, «.? 1 an (f,,2 •••
a,"~ and the product I1 = («2—«,) («a —«i) («4— «]) X (й3—a2) (a4—a2) X ..."
5. A treatise on the theory of determinants: With Graduated Sets of Exercises by Thomas Muir (1882)
"6n-i 6n-^/' vl ai .... an-i \_ Jrt ai .... an i alternants. § 114. When the
elements of the first row of a determinant are all functions of one variable, ..."
6. An Elementary Handbook of Logic by John Joseph Toohey (1918)
"A disjunctive proposition with mutually exclusive alternants corresponds to a
hypothetical ... When a disjunctive proposition contains only two alternants, ..."
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