The History of Approximation Theory From Euler to Bernstein /

• Main Author: Steffens, Karl-Georg (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Anastassiou, George A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston, 2006.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Approximation theory.; Fourier analysis.; Sequences (Mathematics).; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Approximations and Expansions.; Sequences, Series, Summability.; Fourier Analysis.

The problem of approximating a given quantity is one of the oldest challenges faced by mathematicians. Its increasing importance in contemporary mathematics has created an entirely new area known as Approximation Theory. The modern theory was initially developed along two divergent schools of though...

Table of Contents:

• Forerunners
• Pafnuti Lvovich Chebyshev
• The Saint Petersburg Mathematical School
• Development Outside Russia
• Constructive Function Theory: Kharkiv.