Matrix Methods An Introduction Author:Richard Bronson This new edition of Matrix Methods emphasizes applications to Jordan-canonical forms, differential equations, and least squares. The revision now includes an entire new chapter on inner products, additional material on elementary row applications, and hundreds of new exercises. — * Provides an introduction to the functional approach to pro... more »gramming
* Emphasizes the problem to be solved, not the programming language
* Takes the view that all computer programs are a definition of a function
* Includes exercises for each chapter
* Requires at least a high school algebra level of mathematical sophistication
* A self-contained work
* Can be used as a pre-programming language introduction to the mathematics of computing« less