NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA
Lloyd N. Trefethen and David Bau, III
xii+361 pages
SIAM, 1997

David Bau (currently at Microsoft) and I published a graduate textbook on numerical linear algebra in 1997. Our aims in this book are beauty, depth of insight, and brevity. The text is split into forty lectures, each about eight pages long. It is based on the course I taught repeatedly at MIT and Cornell during 1984-1997.

The book was published by SIAM in April, 1997, and has been one of SIAM's bestsellers since then.

Table of contents and other front matter

Lecture 1   Matrix-Vector Multiplication

Lecture 2   Orthogonal Vectors and Matrices

Lecture 3   Norms

Lecture 4   The Singular Value Decomposition

Lecture 5   More on the SVD
 

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