Our Subjects and Objectives. This book is about algebraic and symbolic
computation and numerical computing (with matrices and polynomials). It
greatly extends the study of these topics presented in the celebrated
books of the seventies, [AHU] and [BM] (these topics have been
under-represented in [CLR], which is a highly successful extension and
updating of [AHU] otherwise). Compared to [AHU] and [BM] our
volume adds extensive material on parallel com- putations with general
matrices and polynomials, on the bit-complexity of arithmetic
computations (including some recent techniques of data compres- sion and
the study of numerical approximation properties of polynomial and matrix
algorithms), and on computations with Toeplitz matrices and other dense
structured matrices. The latter subject should attract people working in
numerous areas of application (in particular, coding, signal processing,
control, algebraic computing and partial differential equations). The
au- thors' teaching experience at the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York and at the University of Pisa suggests that the
book may serve as a text for advanced graduate students in mathematics
and computer science who have some knowledge of algorithm design and
wish to enter the exciting area of algebraic and numerical computing.
The potential readership may also include algorithm and software
designers and researchers specializing in the design and analysis of
algorithms, computational complexity, alge- braic and symbolic
computing, and numerical computation.