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The algorithm has been independently rediscovered several times, in some form or another. It was first published in 1840 by [[Urbain Le Verrier]],<ref>[[Urbain Le Verrier]]: ''Sur les variations séculaires des éléments des orbites pour les sept planètes principales'', ''J. de Math.'' (1) '''5''', 230 (1840), [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k163849/f228n35.capture# Online]</ref> subsequently redeveloped by
P. Horst,<ref>Paul Horst: ''A method of determining the coefficients of a characteristic equation''. ''Ann. Math. Stat.'' '''6''' 83-84 (1935), {{DOI|10.1214/aoms/1177732612}}</ref>, [[Jean-Marie Souriau]],<ref>[[Jean-Marie Souriau]], ''Une méthode pour la décomposition spectrale et l'inversion des matrices'', ''Comptes Rend.'' '''227''', 1010-1011 (1948).</ref> in its present form here by Faddeev and Sominsky,<ref> D. K. Faddeev, and I. S. Sominsky, ''Sbornik zadatch po vyshej algebra'' (Problems in higher algebra, Mir publishers, 1972), Moskow-Leningrad (1949). Problem '''979'''.</ref> and further by J. S. Frame,<ref> J. S. Frame: ''A simple recursion formula for inverting a matrix (abstract)'', ''Bull. Am. Math. Soc.'' '''55''' 1045 (1949), {{DOI|10.1090/S0002-9904-1949-09310-2}}</ref> and others. (For historical points, see Householder.<ref>
{{cite book|ref=harv|first=Alston S.|last=Householder|title=The Theory of Matrices in Numerical Analysis |publisher=Dover Books on Mathematics|year=2006|authorlink=Alston Scott Householder | isbn=0486449726}}</ref> An elegant shortcut to the proof, bypassing [[Newton polynomial]]s, was introduced by Hou.<ref>Hou, S. H. (1998). [http://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/S003614459732076X "Classroom Note: A Simple Proof of the Leverrier--Faddeev Characteristic Polynomial Algorithm"] ''SIAM review'' '''40(3)''' 706-709, {{doi|10.1137/S003614459732076X}} .</ref> The bulk of the presentation here follows Gantmacher, p. 88.<ref>{{cite book|ref=harv| last= Gantmacher|first=F.R. | title=The Theory of Matrices |year=1960| publisher= Chelsea Publishing|___location= NY | ISBN = 0-8218-1376-5 }}</ref>)
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