Matrix Norms and their Applications

CHAPTER 1 - OPERATORS IN FINITE-DIMENSIONAL NORMED SPACES 1 §l. Norms of vectors, linear functionals, and linear operators. 1 § 2. Survey of spectral theory 14 § 3. Spectral radius . 17 § 4. One-parameter groups and semigroups of operators. 25 Appendix. Conditioning in general computational problems 28 CHAPTER 2 - SPECTRAL PROPERTIES OF CONTRACTIONS 33 §l. Contractive operators and isometries. 33 §2. Stability theorems. 46 §3. One-parameter semigroups of contractions and groups of isometries. 48…