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This book is addressed to mathematicians, engineers and people who are involved with natural sciences in order to acquaint them with inverse problems occurring in all fields of their work and with the stable approximate solution of such problems which are in general ill-posed. The book presents an overview of all important regularization methods for solving inverse problems and the mathematical tools that are necessary to understand the specific character of the methods and to apply numerical procedures based on such methods. The reader will find an excellent collection of examples for inverse problems having mostly a technical background and a two- or three-dimensional geometry. In particular, by the way the author presents his comprehensive knowledge of tomography and its recent variants and modifications. Tomography examples draw through the whole book. It is rather astonishing that the author is always able to find cross-connections of the presented concepts of inverse problem theory and different tomography situations. The mathematical theory under consdieration uses preferably the functional analysis in Hilbert spaces. Although there exist already various books on the mathematics of inverse problems in English and German, this monograph which contains 145 citations of books and papers that are important in the standard and recent literature of this topic is very valuable and helpful and will certainly find a grateful public. It deals both with linear and nonlinear inverse problems and it combines the investigation and intensive discussion of the occurring ill-posedness phenomena with a deep analysis and numerical analysis of advanced stable resolution methods. The book consists of eight chapters. The first seven chapters contain exercises. In Chapter~1, the author presents a sample of examples and the abstract formulation for inverse problems. Based on the singular value decomposition of compact linear operators in Hilbert spaces, the ill-posedness of operator equations is discussed in Chapter~2, whereas Chapter~3 describes regularization methods for linear problems, concepts of their optimality and strategies for choosing the regularization parameter. The brief Chapter~4 deals with variants and modifications of the Tikhonov-Phillips regularization. The class of iterative regularization methods is extensively studied in Chapter~5. In Chapter~6 the author presents projection and discretization techniques, but also his specific ideas, aspects and case studies concerning the numerical approach to the solution of inverse problems. The approximate inverse introduced by Louis and Maaß and its application to tomography plays an important role in this chapter in the discrete version developed by Rieder and Schuster. The Chapter~7 on nonlinear inverse problems is very interesting. The concept of local ill-posedness is immediately applied to the mathematical model of three variants of modern tomography. Moreover, this chapter presents some analysis of direct and iterative regularization methods for inverse problems with nonlinear forward operators and contains numerical experiments concerning the inexact Newton method. The final Chapter~8 as an appendix collects a couple of definitions, examples and theorems on functional analysis used throughout the book.