This third edition offers expanded treatment of areas such as CS decomposition, floating point arithmetic, special linear systems, the unsymmetric Lanczos process, and Toeplitz matrix eigenproblems. Other changes to this edition include some 300 new references and 100 new problems, replacement of LINPACK and EISPACK citations with pointers to LAPACK with key codes tabulated at the beginning of appropriate chapters, and correction of the large number of typographical errors in the previous edition. Copyright c 1999 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR All rights reserved - This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.