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          Beginning of essay An argument given by professor Loren Johnson of the Mathematics Department of the University of California Santa Barbara states: The determinant of the n x n matrix A is the product of it's eigenvalues (Yaquib 303). In order to show if this argument is valid and sound we will need to define some es ....
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 .... subtracted from the product of the identity matrix and the variable lambda (Hughes-Hallet 90). The identity matrix is defined as a matrix with ones along it's diagonal and zeros everywhere else (Yaquib 23). Now having a rough idea of what the determinant and eigenvalues are we can proceed with discussion of the argument. 
Is this a valid argument? The definition of validity explains in order to be valid the argument must have the characteristic that it's conclusion absolutely follows from the p....
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