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About the Author
Richard Bronson, Ph.D., is a professor and chairman of mathematics and computer science at Farleigh Dickinson University. He is an associate editor of the journal Simulation, contributing editor to SIAM News, has served as a consultant to Bell Telephone Laboratories, and has published more than 25 technical articles and books. He is the author of Schaum's Outline of Modern Introductory Differential Equations and Schaum's Outline of Operations Research.
Table of Contents
1. Basic Operations. 2. Simultaneous Linear Equations 3. Square Matrices 4. Matrix Inversion 5. Determinants 6. Vectors 7. Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors 8. Functions of Matrices 9. Canonical Bases 10. Similarity 11. Inner Products 12. Norms 13. Hermitian Matrices 14. Positive Definite Matrices 15. Unitary Transformations 16. Quadratic Forms and Congruence 17. Nonnegative Matrices 18. Patterned Matrices 19. Power Methods for Locating Real Eigenvalues 20. The OR Algorithm 21. Generalized Inverses