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Publication
American Mathematical Monthly
Paper
A simple proof of a generalized Cauchy-Binet theorem
Abstract
The Cauchy-Binet theorem is the main step in proving the multiplicative property of compound matrices. We present here a novel elementary proof of a generalization of the Cauchy-Binet theorem using properties of square matrices.