\documentstyle[11pt]{article} \textwidth 6.6in \textheight 8.0in \oddsidemargin 0in \evensidemargin 0in \topmargin 0.1in \parindent 0.5in \begin{document} \thispagestyle{empty} \centerline {\Large\bf Two-sided iteration methods } \centerline {\Large\bf for matrix inversion \footnote{This work is partially supported by Contract MM 521/95 with the Bulgarian Ministry of Education, Sciences and Technologies } } \vspace{0.4cm} \centerline {\Large\bf Jumah A. Zarnan, Ivan G. Ivanov, Milko G. Petkov} \vspace{0.4cm} \large In the present paper we suggest and study two-sided iteration methods for matrix inversion of positive definite matrices, M-matrices and arbitrary matrices. We show in case symmetric positive definite matrix $A$ the two-sided iteration process for calculating the inverse $A^{-1}$ enables us to obtain the maximum eigenvalue of $A^{-1}$. The two-sided methods besides their capacites of parallelizing have the advantage of easier criteria of stopping and estimating the error of successive approximations. \end{document}