Numerical Linear Algebra

By (author) Trefethen Lloyd N.; By (author) Bau David
Short description/annotation:
Since its original appearance in 1997, Numerical Linear Algebra has been a leading textbook in its field. It is noted for its 40 lecture-sized short chapters and its clear and inviting style. It is reissued here with a new foreword by James Nagy and a new afterword by Yuji Nakatsukasa about subsequent developments.
Description:
Since its original appearance in 1997, Numerical Linear Algebra has been a leading textbook in its field, used in universities around the world. It is noted for its 40 lecture-sized short chapters and its clear and inviting style. It is reissued here with a new foreword by James Nagy and a new afterword by Yuji Nakatsukasa about subsequent developments.
Review quote:
A beautifully written textbook offering a distinctive and original treatment.""- Nicholas J. Higham, University of Manchester

""Offers a rarely seen integration of computation and theory, illuminated by judiciously chosen examples.""- Ilse Ipsen, North Carolina State University

""Almost the perfect text to introduce graduate students to the subject.""- Daniel Szyld, Temple University

""An ideal book for a graduate course in numerical linear algebra.""- Suely Oliveira, University of Iowa
Biographical note:
Nick Trefethen is Professor of Numerical Analysis and head of the Numerical Analysis Group at Oxford University. An American, he taught previously at MIT and Cornell. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a former President of SIAM.

David Bau was a student of Trefethen at Cornell when this book was written and then had a career in the tech industry, notably at Microsoft and Google. Most recently he has joined the computer science faculty at Northeastern University, where he leads a research group in computer vision and machine learning.