Determinant vs Pfaffian - What's the difference?
determinant | pfaffian |
A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something
(linear algebra) The unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value of 1 for the unit matrix. Abbreviation: det
(biology) A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
As nouns the difference between determinant and pfaffian
is that determinant is (label) determiner while pfaffian is .As a verb determinant
is .As an adjective determinant
is determinant.determinant
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(wikipedia determinant) (en noun)See also
* permanent * singular *Mathworld article on determinants