This book is the definitive treatment of the theory of polynomials in a complex variable with matrix coefficients.

I. Gohberg is Professor Emeritus of Tel-Aviv University and Free University of Amsterdam and Doctor Honoris Causa of several European universities. He has contributed to the fields of functional analysis and operator theory, integral equations and systems theory, matrix analysis and linear algebra, and computational techniques for structured integral equations and structured matrices. He has coauthored 25 books in different areas of pure and applied mathematics.