内容简介
Thepurposeofthisbookistopromoteunderstandingoftwophenomena:sensitivityoflinearsystemsandleastsquaresproblems,andnumericalstabilityofalgorithms.Sensitivityandstabilityareanalyzedasmathematicalproperties,withoutreferencetofiniteprecisionarithmetic.Thematerialispresentedatabasiclevel,emphasizingideasandintuition,butinamathematicallyrigorousfashion.Thederivationsaresimpleandelegant,andtheresultsareeasytounderstandandinterpret.Thebookisself-contained.Itwaswrittenforstudentsinallareasofmathematics,engineering,andthecomputationalsciences,butcaneasilybeusedforself-study.Thistextdiffersfromothernumericallinearalgebratextsbyofferingthefollowing:asystematicdevelopmentofnumericalconditioning;asimplifiedconceptofnumericalstabilityinexactarithmetic;simplederivations;ahigh-levelviewofalgorithms;andresultsforcomplexmatrices.