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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.

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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

"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"

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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.

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