Download or read book Matrix Computations and Mathematical Software written by John Rischard Rice and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1981 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linear algebra background; types and sources of matrix computational problems; type of matrix that arise; gauss elimination and LU factorization; mathematical software objectives; mathematical software performance evaluation; how do you know you have right answers?; conditioning and backward error analysis; iterative methods; linear least squares and regression; projects; standard linear algebra software.