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You might be interested in the shoelace formula and its generalization to n dimensions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoelace_formula


For this particular case of 3 dimensions, I found

Newson, H. B. β€œOn the Volume of a Polyhedron.” Annals of Mathematics, vol. 1, no. 1/4, 1899, pp. 108–10. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1967277




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