For what it’s worth, I strongly agree (1) that exterior algebra is the Right Way to think about determinants, conditional on there being other reasons in your life for knowing exterior algebra, and (2) that doing it that way in this post would have had too much overhead.
For what it’s worth, I strongly agree (1) that exterior algebra is the Right Way to think about determinants, conditional on there being other reasons in your life for knowing exterior algebra, and (2) that doing it that way in this post would have had too much overhead.