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We introduce basic problems in Section 1.1 and discuss various possibilities for representing matrices in Section 1.3. To introduce examples of ‘large-scale problems’, we recall the discretisation of boundary value problems (cf. §1.5.1) and integral equations (cf. §1.5.2).
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Hackbusch, W. (2015). Introduction. In: Hierarchical Matrices: Algorithms and Analysis. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol 49. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47324-5_1
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