I'm solving linear equations with matrices right now and I wonder, how did it start.
Who, how, why came to idea that such kind of equations could be solved with matrices? What was first: matrix or linear equation? How did they found each other?
Will be glad, if anybody is able to answer my question.
Best Answer
These links: https://web.archive.org/web/20170628165531/https://ualr.edu/lasmoller/matrices.html and https://web.archive.org/web/20120910034016/https://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~vitulli/441.sp04/LinAlgHistory.html have some info on this :)