Book Reviews P o l y n o m i a l and M a t r i x C o m p u t a t i o n s V o l u m e 1: F u n d a m e n t a l A l g o r i t h m s . Dario Bini and Victor Pan. Birkh~user, 1994. xvi~-415 pages. ISBN 0-8176-3786-9. $64.50. By The past few decades have produced a wealth of interesting and useful work in t h e area of algorithms for algebraic, symbolic, and numerical computing. Unfortunately, there has been a huge void in the area of books summarizing and bringing together the core results of algebraic computation, with the two main exceptions being Borodin and Munro's excellent book The Computational Complezity o~ Algebraic and Numeric Problems (published in 1975), and selected chapters of the oft-cited algorithms book by Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman (published in 1974). B o t h of these books axe now over two decades old and cover fairly small sets of selected topics. To K]l this void we axe now greeted with the release of a book covering t h e
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