Product Description

Customer Reviews (1)

A classic
Table of contents

1. SOME BASIC IDENTITIES AND INEQUALITIES
1.0 Objectives; Notation
1.1 Elementary Matrices
1.2 Some Factorizations
1.3 Projections, and the General Reciprocal
1.4 Some Determinantal Identities
1.5 Lanczos Algorithm for Tridiagonalization
1.6 Orthogonal Polynomials
References
Problems and Exercises

2. NORMS, BOUNDS, AND CONVERGENCE
2.0 The Notion of a Norm
2.1 Convex Sets and Convex Bodies
2.2 Norms and Bounds
2.3 Norms, Bounds, and Spectral Radii
2.4 Nonnegative Matrices
2.5 Convergence; Functions of Matrices
References
Problems and Exercises

3. LOCALIZATION THEOREMS AND OTHER INEQUALITIES
3.0 Basic Definitions
3.1 Exclusion Theorems
3.2 Inclusion and Separation Theorems
3.3 Minimax Theorems and the Field of Values
3.4 Inequalities of Wielandt Kantorovich
References
Problems and Exercises

4. THE SOLUTION OF LINEAR SYSTEMS: METHODS OF SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION
4.0 Direct Methods and Others
4.1 The Inversion of Matrices
4.2 Methods of Projection
4.3 Norm-Reducing Methods
References
Problems and Exercises

5. DIRECT METHODS OF INVERSION
5.0 Uses of the Inverse
5.1 The Method of Modification
5.2 Triangularization
5.3 A More General Formulation
5.4 Orthogonal Triangularization
5.5 Orthogonalization
5.6 Orthogonalization and Projection
5.7 The Method of Conjugate Gradients
References
Problems and Exercises

6. PROPER VALUES AND VECTORS: NORMALIZATION AND REDUCTION OF THE MATRIX
6.0 Purpose of Normalization
6.1 The Method of Krylov
6.2 The Weber-Voetter Method
6.3 The Method of Danilevskii
6.4 The Hessenberg and the Lanczos Reductions
6.5 Proper Values and Vectors
6.6 The Method of Samuelson and Bryan
6.7 The Method of Leverrier
References
Problems and Exercises

7.PROPER VALUES AND VECTORS: SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION
7.0 Methods of Successive Approximation
7.1 The Method of Jacobi
7.2 The Method of Collar and Jahn
7.3 Powers of a Matrix
7.4 Simple Iteration (the Power Method)
7.5 Multiple Roots and Principal Vectors
7.6 Staircase Iteration (Treppeniteration)
7.7 The LR-Transformation
7.8 Bi-iteration
7.9 The QR-Transformation
References
Problems and Exercises

BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX ... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (1)

Outdated
I guess this should be expected for a book decades old on a subject that was still settling out when Householder was writing this.

While it does give some thoughts on central concepts in Numerical Analysis, its treatment is far from the standard.I'm sorry to say this, especially with an author as great as Householder, but I personally thought Hildebrand was better.

Actually, if you're going to get a book as an introduction to Numerical Analysis, I would seriously suggest Gautschi's. ... Read more

Product Description
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

Product Description
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

Product Description
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

Product Description
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

Product Description
In this work 5000 abbreviations are listed and explained, from NATO to CTScan and from SDLP to CNN. The areas covered include current affairs, computing, warfare, education and medicine. ... Read more