@article{BoDu10, author = {Bostan, Alin and Dumas, Philippe}, title = {{W}ronskians and linear independence}, journal = {American Mathematical Monthly}, volume = {117}, number = {8}, pages = {722--727}, year = {2010}, abstract = {We give a new and simple proof of the fact that a finite family of analytic functions has a zero Wronskian only if it is linearly dependent.}, }