Morris Kline: "Meskipun determinan dan matriks menerima banyak perhati...

"Meskipun determinan dan matriks menerima banyak perhatian di abad kesembilan belas dan ribuan makalah ditulis pada mata pelajaran ini, mereka bukan merupakan inovasi besar dalam matematika .... Baik determinan maupun matriks telah mempengaruhi secara mendalam jalannya matematika meskipun utilitas mereka sebagai ekspresi kompak dan terlepas dari sugesti matriks sebagai kelompok konkret untuk penegasan teorema umum teori kelompok."

--- Morris Kline

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they do not constitute great innovations in mathematics.... Neither determinants nor matrices have influenced deeply the course of mathematics despite their utility as compact expressions and despite the suggestiveness of matrices as concrete groups for the discernment of general theorems of group theory.