The determinant | Chapter 6, Essence of linear algebra
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The determinant measures signed area or volume scaling. Zero signals collapse into a lower dimension, and composing transformations multiplies their scale factors.
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the factor by which a linear transformation changes any areaA determinant of 0 would mean that all of space is squished onto something with 0 volumewhenever the orientation of space is inverted, the determinant will be negativethe same as the product of the determinants of the original two matrices