History+Of+Matrices

History of matrices.

The history of matrices goes back to ancient times, howver the term matrix wasnt applied until 1850. Matrix can also be other things than a mathmatical array of numbers. In latin it is the word for womb. Also it can mean more generally any place in which something is formed or produced. James Joseph Sylvester was the man that introduced matrices all those years ago in 1850. Matrices first appearence in ancient china has remained all over the world in famous mathematitions and are now used as very useful mathematics tools. They are not always used for just simple equations, they can also be used for describing quantum mechanics, designing comptuter games graphics and other unusul things. A famous female mathematition called Olga taussky Todd(1906-1995) ki history a