Chemistry - Dodgson condensation

Dodgson condensation is a method of computing determinants, due to Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll).

References and further reading

Bressoud, David M., Proofs and Confirmations, MAA Spectrum, Mathematical Associations of America, Washington, D.C., 1999.
Bressoud, David M. and Propp, James, How the alternating sign matrix conjecture was solved, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 46 (1999), 637-646.
Mills, William H., Robbins, David P., and Rumsey, Howard, Jr., Proof of the Macdonald conjecture, Inventiones Mathematicae, 66 (1982), 73-87.
Mills, William H., Robbins, David P., and Rumsey, Howard, Jr., Alternating sign matrices and descending plane partitions, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 34 (1983), 340-359.
Robbins, David P., The story of $1, 2, 7, 42, 429, 7436, \cdots$ , The Mathematical Intelligencer, 13 (1991), 12-19.