The SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications is a peer-reviewed

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 covering matrix

Matrix (mathematics)

In mathematics, a matrix is a rectangular array of numbers, symbols, or expressions. The individual items in a matrix are called its elements or entries. An example of a matrix with six elements isMatrices of the same size can be added or subtracted element by element...

 analysis and its applications. The relevant applications include signal processing, systems and control theory, statistics, Markov chains, and mathematical biology.

The journal is published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics was founded by a small group of mathematicians from academia and industry who met in Philadelphia in 1951 to start an organization whose members would meet periodically to exchange ideas about the uses of mathematics in industry. This meeting led...

. The founding editor in chief

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 was Gene Golub

Gene H. Golub

Gene Howard Golub , Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, was one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation....

, who established the journal in 1980. The current editor is Dianne P. O'Leary (University of Maryland

University of Maryland

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).