Jörg Liesen

Zdenek Strakos

This volume describes the principles and history behind the use of Krylov subspace methods in science and engineering. The outcome of the analysis is very practical and indicates what can and cannot be expected from the use of Krylov subspace methods challenging some common assumptions and justifications of standard approaches.

Principles and Analysis

Krylov Subspace Methods

Volker Mehrmann

Eine Einführung, welche die Lineare Algebra aus Anwendungsproblemen motiviert und eine Basis- und Matrizenorientierte Darstellung mit der abstrakten mathematischen Theorie kombiniert. Die Bedeutung der Linearen Algebra für die Entwicklung moderner numerischer Verfahren sowie als grundlegendes Werkzeug im Bereich der reinen Mathematik wird verdeutlicht. Das Buch ist stark modularisiert und für unterschiedliche Typen von Lehrveranstaltungen geeignet.

Ein Lehrbuch über die Theorie mit Blick auf die Praxis

Lineare Algebra

This self-contained textbook takes a matrix-oriented approach to linear algebra and presents a complete theory, including all details and proofs, culminating in the Jordan canonical form and its proof. Throughout the development, the applicability of the results is highlighted. Additionally, the book presents special topics from applied linear algebra including matrix functions, the singular value decomposition, the Kronecker product and linear matrix equations. The matrix-oriented approach to linear algebra leads to a better intuition and a deeper understanding of the abstract concepts, and therefore simplifies their use in real world applications. Some of these applications are presented in detailed examples. In several ‘MATLAB-Minutes’ students can comprehend the concepts and results using computational experiments. Necessary basics for the use of MATLAB are presented in a short introduction. Students can also actively work with the material and practice their mathematical skills in more than 300 exercises.

Linear Algebra

Hans-Joachim Petsche

Albert C. Lewis

Steve Russ

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hermann Graßmann (1809-1877), an interdisciplinary conference was held in Potsdam, Germany, and in Graßmann's hometown Szczecin, Poland. The idea of the conference was to present a multi-faceted picture of Graßmann, and to uncover the complexity of the factors that were responsible for his creativity. The conference demonstrated not only the very influential reception of his work at the turn of the 20th century, but also the unexpected modernity of his ideas, and their continuing development in the 21st century. This book contains 37 papers presented at the conference. They investigate the significance of Graßmann's work for philosophical as well as for scientific and methodological questions, for comparative philology in general and for Indology in particular, for psychology, physiology, religious studies, musicology, didactics, and, last but not least, mathematics. In addition, the book contains numerous illustrations and English translations of original sources, which are published here for the first time. These include life histories of Graßmann (written by his son Justus) and of his brother Robert (written by Robert himself), as well as the paper "On the concept and extent of pure theory of number'' by Justus Graßmann (the father).

Jörg Liesen

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