Past exam of the mathematical methods I course of the University of Oxford / 2021 resit / 8 / b

For an invertible matrix $P$ whose columns give the new basis in old coordinates, the new matrix is $B=P^{-1}AP$. Multiplicativity of the determinant givessince $\det (P^{-1})\det P=1$.

To justify the cyclic property of the trace directly, for two square matrices $R,S$,Apply it with $R=P^{-1}A$ and $S=P$:Thus both the determinant and trace are invariant under change of basis.