Wronskian

Author

Eric W. Weisstein
August 20, 2003

This notebook downloaded from http://mathworld.wolfram.com/notebooks/LinearAlgebra/Wronskian.nb.

For more information, see Eric's MathWorld entry http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Wronskian.html.

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Initialization

Wronskian[f__,x_]:=Det[NestList[D[#,x]&,f,Length[f]-1]]

Examples

FullSimplify[Wronskian[Through[{Sin,Cos}[x]],x]]

FullSimplify[Wronskian[{2x+1,4x+2},x]]