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Review title: Don't waste your money!
Product review: This was the required text for a graduate course I had in numerical linear algebra. The 1st edition of this book has hundreds of errors! I don't know if they corrected them in this edition. I learned nothing from this book; It is poorly written.There is far too much emphasis on LU factorization. Not enough information on sparse iterative methods. In most numerical applications you don't have a full matrix, you have a sparse one. I have been able to sucessfully implement sparse iterative solvers from other books. Some of paperbacks by SIAM are pretty good at that.
