In fact, C. B. Boyer, B. A. Hedman and others claimed that Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746) knew Cramer's Rule as early as 1729, and incorporated it in his posthumous Trea- tise of Algebra published in 1748 (see [1] and [10]).
In fact, C. B. Boyer,B. A. Hedman and others claimed that Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746) knewCramer's Rule as early as 1729, and incorporated it in his posthumous Trea-tise of Algebra published in 1748 (see [1] and [10]).