| Preface | p. ix |
| Greedy approximation with regard to bases | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Schauder bases in Banach spaces | p. 6 |
| Greedy bases | p. 15 |
| Quasi-greedy and almost greedy bases | p. 33 |
| Weak Greedy Algorithms with respect to bases | p. 39 |
| Thresholding and minimal systems | p. 43 |
| Greedy approximation with respect to the trigonometric system | p. 47 |
| Greedy-type bases; direct and inverse theorems | p. 58 |
| Some further results | p. 63 |
| Systems Lp-equivalent to the Haar basis | p. 68 |
| Open problems | p. 76 |
| Greedy approximation with respect to dictionaries: Hilbert spaces | p. 77 |
| Introduction | p. 77 |
| Convergence | p. 84 |
| Rate of convergence | p. 89 |
| Greedy algorithms for systems that are not dictionaries | p. 97 |
| Greedy approximation with respect to -quasi-orthogonal dictionaries | p. 101 |
| Lebesgue-type inequalities for greedy approximation | p. 111 |
| Saturation property of greedy-type algorithms | p. 122 |
| Some further remarks | p. 135 |
| Open problems | p. 141 |
| Entropy | p. 143 |
| Introduction: definitions and some simple properties | p. 143 |
| Finite dimensional spaces | p. 144 |
| Trigonometric polynomials and volume estimates | p. 151 |
| The function classes | p. 165 |
| General inequalities | p. 168 |
| Some further remarks | p. 175 |
| Open problems | p. 182 |
| Approximation in learning theory | p. 183 |
| Introduction | p. 183 |
| Some basic concepts of probability theory | p. 189 |
| Improper function learning; upper estimates | p. 206 |
| Proper function learning; upper estimates | p. 235 |
| The lower estimates | p. 253 |
| Application of greedy algorithms in learning theory | p. 270 |
| Approximation in compressed sensing | p. 277 |
| Introduction | p. 277 |
| Equivalence of three approximation properties of the compressed sensing matrix | p. 283 |
| Construction of a good matrix | p. 287 |
| Dealing with noisy data | p. 294 |
| First results on exact recovery of sparse signals; the Orthogonal Greedy Algorithm | p. 298 |
| Exact recovery of sparse signals; the Subspace Pursuit Algorithm | p. 305 |
| On the size of incoherent systems | p. 314 |
| Restricted Isometry Property for random matrices | p. 327 |
| Some further remarks | p. 330 |
| Open problems | p. 332 |
| Greedy approximation with respect to dictionaries: Banach spaces | p. 334 |
| Introduction | p. 334 |
| The Weak Chebyshev Greedy Algorithm | p. 340 |
| Relaxation; co-convex approximation | p. 347 |
| Free relaxation | p. 350 |
| Fixed relaxation | p. 354 |
| Thresholding algorithms | p. 359 |
| Greedy expansions | p. 363 |
| Relaxation; X-greedy algorithms | p. 378 |
| Incoherent dictionaries and exact recovery | p. 381 |
| Greedy algorithms with approximate evaluations and restricted search | p. 385 |
| An application of greedy algorithms for the discrepancy estimates | p. 390 |
| Open problems | p. 404 |
| References | p. 405 |
| Index | p. 415 |
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