From which book is this?
It covers in detail many topics often glossed over while keeping an eye on what is actually applicable, including such things as (taken from their page):
> More big matrices! We included the Perron-Frobenius theorem, and its application to Google's PageRank algorithm More singular values! We included a detailed proof of the singular value decomposition, and show how it applies to facial recognition: "how does Facebook apply names to pictures?"