Gaston H. Gonnet is a Professor in the Department of Informatik at ETH, Zurich. His research interests lie in symbolic and algebraic computation, system development, limit and series computation and heuristic algorithms, computational biochemistry algorithms, and the design and analysis of algorithms. Ralf Scholl teaches mathematics, physics, and science and technology at the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. His interests lie in the didactics of teaching science and mathematics at high school to graduate level.

• Preface; 1. Determination of the accurate location of an aircraft; 2. When to replace equipment; 3. SSP using LS and SVD; 4. SSP using least squares and best basis; 5. SSP learning methods (nearest neighbours); 6. SSP with linear programming (LP); 7. Stock market prediction; 8. Phylogenetic tree construction; Appendixes; Index.

'… this book will help students understand methods in some of their appropriate contexts, in a relatively easy, fresh, and concise way.' E. Vavalis, Computing Reviews