Richard Brent is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Australian National University, Canberra. Paul Zimmermann is a researcher at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA).

'Very few books do justice to material that is suitable for both professional software engineers and graduate students. This book does just that, without losing its focus or stressing one audience over the other. As the authors make clear, this book is about algorithms for arithmetic (and not hardware considerations and implementations); this focus allows them to cover integer arithmetic, modular arithmetic, and floating-point arithmetic broadly and in detail. the notes and references at the end of each chapter guide readers to more details, and provide a historical backdrop for each major topic.' Marlin Thomas, Reviews.com

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Notation; 1. Integer arithmetic; 2. Modular arithmetic and the FFT; 3. Floating-point arithmetic; 4. Newton's method and function evaluation; Appendix. Implementations and pointers; Bibliography; Index.