 Gram determinant

The determinant of a Gram matrix is nonnegative and vanishes precisely when its vectors are linearly dependent. In Euclidean three-dimensional space, three column vectors form a square matrix $V$, whose Gram matrix is $V^{T}V$. Its determinant is $(\det V{)}^2=[v_1\cdot (v_2\times v_3){]}^2$, the square of the scalar triple product and of the parallelepiped volume.