about determinant relation in block matrix with non square blocks

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if $A$ is an $m\times n$ matrix and $B$ is an $n\times m$ matrix prove that

$$\det \left( \begin{bmatrix} O &A \\-B & I \end{bmatrix} \right)=\det(AB)$$

tried many thing such as getting it to triangle form but I could not maybe you can, or can give alternative answer

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You can get it into triangular form by means of column operations. Or look at it this way:

$$ \begin{pmatrix} O & A\\ -B & I \end{pmatrix} \begin{pmatrix} I & O\\ B & I \end{pmatrix} = \begin{pmatrix} AB & A\\ O & I \end{pmatrix} $$ and taking determinants gives the result.