Errata for the Book Numerical Linear Algebra and

Applications (Second Edition)

By
Biswa Nath Datta

Page xxiii Lines 8 and 9 replace Roland by Ronald and Tarzaga by Tarazaga.
Page 8 Line 2 uv t should be uT v.
Page 17 Example 2.22. The vector x should read as :
x = (1, 1, 2)T .
Page 75 Exercise 4.3 Replace the statement of the problem by Identify which of
the roots of the following polynomials are ill-conditioned and give reasons
for your answer. Also make the following changes : In 4.3(a) Change +1 to 1.
In 4.3(b) change 0.99 to 0.9999.
Page 76 Exercise 4.6 Replace the words bandwidth 2 by bandwidth 3.
Page 77 Exercise 4.19 It should read as: Let A = LDLT be a symmetric positive
definite matrix, where L is unit lower triangular.
Page 78 Second Bullet is in the box. The web site address should be
www.siam.org/books/ot116
Page 79 Exercise M4.5.
aii = n i + 1, i = 1, 2, . . . , n.
Page 87 Step 3. Line 2 Replace the word third by 4th .
(n1)

Page 91 Theorem 5.8 Second line of Proof : Replace ann

(n2)

by an1,n1 .

Page 111 Exercise 5.1 (c). Replace M (twice) by M1 .

(n1)

Page 112 Exercise 5.3 Replace ann

(n2)

by an1,n1 .

Page 115 Exercise M5.6 The sentence appearing in line 5 and line 6 of this exercise,
plot the entries of the inverse of L, should be completed as plot the entries of
the inverse of L with magnitude greater than or equal to 1. Also make the
similar correction on line 7.
Page 130 In flop-counts, Solutions for: each 2n2 should be n2 flops; for each n2 should
be n2 /2 flops. The Total is +2n2 and should be +n2 .

 Page 156 2nd Do-loop of Algorithm 6.7 should read as for i = k + 1, . . . , n. do

Page 175 Exercise 6.27 (a). Change the (3,2) entry of the matrix A to 1.001.
Page 176 Exercise 6.35. In 6.35 (a) Replace the statement of the problem by Prove
that a strictly column diagonally matrix has an LU factorization without
pivoting.
In 6.35 (b), replace the word GEPP by Gaussian elimination without pivoting.
Page 185 Line 15 Replace A by AT . That is, Equation 2 will read as :
HAT = (I uut )AT = AT uuT AT = AT uv T , where v = Au.
Line 16 Replace w by v.
Page 187 In Algorithm 7.1, Step 1 should read as : Find the scaling factor m =
max(|x1 |, . . . |xn |).
Page 204 In Algorithm 7.7, missing indentation in the 3 lines above End.
Page 207 Flop-Count in Table 7.2 is only for computing the Matrix R only.
Page 208 On Line 3, append a rows, should read as append rows; factored of
QT , should read as factored QT .
Page 218 In (a), A has rank k, should read as Ak has rank k.
Page 229 Exercise 7.4 (a) Replace : AH by AT H.
Page 264 Section 8.8.1 Line 4, delete the matrix QT from the equation


YR
T
T
T
(R , 0 )Q
=b
YN
Page 274
 Exercise
 8.18 (a) Complete the statement of the problem as : Show that
1
R
0
A = V
QT , by verifying the four properties of the pseudoinverse
0 0
A given in Section 10.3.4 (Page 368).
Page 275 Exercise 8.21 Replace R(A ) by R(AT ).
Page 307 Inside the frame that is under Householders Method, with a series of
should read as with a sequence of.
Page 316 Inside the frame: Replace kXk1 by kXk.
Page 470 4.1 Replace w = Api with M 1 Api .