Matrices

Denis Serre is Professor of Mathematics at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and a former member of the Institut Universaire de France. He is a member of numerous editorial boards and the author of "Systems of Conservation Laws" (Cambridge University Press 2000). The present book is a translation of the original French edition, "Les Matrices: Theorie et Pratique", published by Dunod (2001).

Elementary Theory * Square Matrices * Matrices with Real or Complex Entries * Norms * Non-negative Matrices * Matrices with Entries in a Principal Domain; Jordan's Reduction * Exponential of a Matrix, Polar Decomposition and Classical Groups * Matrix Factorizations * Iterative Methods for Linear Problems * Approximation of Eigenvalues * Bibliography * Index * List of Symbols