Wolfgang Hackbusch is a Professor in the Scientific Computing department at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences. His research areas include numerical treatment of partial differential equations, numerical treatment of integral equations, and hierarchical matrices.

• Part I: Linear Iterations.- Introduction.- Iterative Methods.- Classical Linear Iterations in the Positive Definite Case.- Analysis of Classical Iterations Under Special Structural Conditions.- Algebra of Linear Iterations.- Analysis of Positive Definite Iterations.- Generation of Iterations. Part II: Semi-Iterations and Krylov Methods.- Semi-Iterative Methods.- Gradient Methods.- Conjugate Gradient Methods and Generalizations.- Part III: Special Iterations.- Multigrid Iterations.- Domain Decomposition and Subspace Methods.- H-LU Iteration.- Tensor-based Methods.- Appendices.

Wolfgang Hackbusch is a Professor in the Scientific Computing department at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences. His research areas include numerical treatment of partial differential equations, numerical treatment of integral equations, and hierarchical matrices.

• Part I: Linear Iterations.- Introduction.- Iterative Methods.- Classical Linear Iterations in the Positive Definite Case.- Analysis of Classical Iterations Under Special Structural Conditions.- Algebra of Linear Iterations.- Analysis of Positive Definite Iterations.- Generation of Iterations. Part II: Semi-Iterations and Krylov Methods.- Semi-Iterative Methods.- Gradient Methods.- Conjugate Gradient Methods and Generalizations.- Part III: Special Iterations.- Multigrid Iterations.- Domain Decomposition and Subspace Methods.- H-LU Iteration.- Tensor-based Methods.- Appendices.

Wolfgang Hackbusch is a Professor in the Scientific Computing department at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences. His research areas include numerical treatment of partial differential equations, numerical treatment of integral equations, and hierarchical matrices.

• Part I: Linear Iterations.- Introduction.- Iterative Methods.- Classical Linear Iterations in the Positive Definite Case.- Analysis of Classical Iterations Under Special Structural Conditions.- Algebra of Linear Iterations.- Analysis of Positive Definite Iterations.- Generation of Iterations. Part II: Semi-Iterations and Krylov Methods.- Semi-Iterative Methods.- Gradient Methods.- Conjugate Gradient Methods and Generalizations.- Part III: Special Iterations.- Multigrid Iterations.- Domain Decomposition and Subspace Methods.- H-LU Iteration.- Tensor-based Methods.- Appendices.