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Book Information:

Authors: Jörg Liesen and Zdeněk Stra-koš
Title: Krylov subspace methods: principles and analysis
Additional book information: Numerical Methods and Scientific Computation, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013, xiv+391 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-965541-0

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Mark Embree
    Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
    Email: embree@vt.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (2015), 151-158
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2014-01473-9
    Published electronically: September 10, 2014
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2014 American Mathematical Society