Zhan (mathematics, East China Normal U., Shanghai) has shaped the lecture notes for a graduate course he has taught several times into a textbook for a graduate or advanced course providing a concise treatment of matrix theory. Among his topics are tensor products and compound matrices, single values and unitarily invariant norms, the perturbation of matrices, sign patterns, and applications of matrices in several branches of mathematics. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)