<p>Since this is a 2<sup>nd</sup> Edition, we are giving below the topics we wish to add/update/revise in roughly the same chapter sequence as we had in the existing 1st Edition of the book. In addition to a general revision of the text, we propose the following major modifications (the asterisks denote the amount of text added/modified and/or or the difficulty level of the topics being discussed):</p> <p> </p> <p>Chapter 2</p> <p> </p> <p>- Subsection 2.1.2: add discussion on how to find all zeros by means </p><p> of the Newton method (*)</p> <p> </p> <p>Chapter 3</p> <p> </p> <p>- Expand Subsection 3.2.7 on solving the A*x = b equations with sparse</p> <p> matrices to a full Section (**)</p> <p>- Expand Subsection 3.4.5 on solving the eigenvalue problem A*x = lambda*x </p> to a full Section (**)<p></p> <p>- Discuss the exponentiation of a matrix, exp(A) (*)</p> <p>- Add a Subsection on Pseudospectra (**)</p> <p>- in general</p>, enhance the "sparse" aspect of the chapter<p></p> <p> </p> <p>Chapter 4</p> <p> </p> <p>- Add a new Section on Sparse FFT (following present Sec. 4.2),</p> <p> add corresponding Exercise (**)</p> <p>- Expand Subsection 4.6.2 on the Discrete Wavelet Transform </p> <p> to a full Section, add Exercise (***)</p> <p>- Add a Section on image denoising (**)</p> <p>- Add Section on Radon transformation (**)</p> <p> </p> Chapter 5<p></p> <p> </p> <p>- Rewrite Sections 5.1-5.5 to better distinguish between general</p> <p> discussion of distributions and the techniques involving samples,</p> <p> and to bring the notation in line with the book "Probability</p> <p> for Physicists" (***)</p> <p>- Introduce Bayesian data analysis and inference (***)</p> <p>- Expand Subsection 5.5.8 on Non-linear Regression to a full Section,</p> <p> add Exercises (**)</p> <p> </p> <p>Chapter 6</p> <p> </p> <p>- Expand Section 6.5 </p>on Noise, add Exercise (**)<p></p> <p>- Add Section on Takens Theorem and its applications: phase space</p> reconstruction and optimal size determination (**)<p></p> <p>- Add discussion on signal entropies (**)</p> <p>- Update discussion on autoregressive models (optimal order) (*)</p> <p>- Add discussion on signal directionality / causality (**)</p> <p> </p> <p>Chapter 7</p> <p> </p> - Expand Section 7.10 on Stiff Problems of ODE, add Exercise (**)<p></p> <p> </p> <p>Chapter 8</p> <p> </p> <p>- Expand Subsection 8.7.4 on Singular SL Problems to a Section,</p> <p> add Exercise (**)</p> <p>- Motivated by Section 8.8, write a new chapter on Inverse Problems (***)</p> <p> </p> <p>Chapter 10</p> <p> </p> <p>- Expand Section 10.8, add Exercise (**)</p> <p> </p> <p>Chapter 11</p> <p> </p> <p>- Expand Sections 11.7 and 11.8, add Exercises (**)</p> <p> </p> New Chapter on Inverse Methods (***)<p></p> <p> </p><p></p> <p>New short Chapter or Appendix on minimization (**)</p> <p>- with derivatives or without them</p> <p>- with constraints or without them</p> <p>- deterministic and quasi-deterministic (MC methods)</p> <p> </p> <p>New Appendix on spline methods: B-splines, Bezier splines (**) </p>