Discrepancy of Signed Measures and Polynomial Approximation

• 1 Auxiliary Facts.- 2 Zero Distribution of Polynomials.- 3 Discrepancy Theorems via Two—Sided Bounds for Potentials.- 4 Discrepancy Theorems via One-Sided Bounds for Potentials.- 5 Discrepancy Theorems via Energy Integrals.- 6 Applications of Jentzsch—Szegö and Erdös—Turán Type Theorems.- 7 Applications of Discrepancy Theorems.- 8 Special Topics.- A Conformally Invariant Characteristics of Curve Families.- A.1 Module and Extremal Length of a Curve Family.- A.2 Reduced Module.- B Basics in the Theory of Quasiconformal Mappings.- B.1 Quasiconformal Mappings.- B.2 Quasiconformal Curves and Arcs.- C Constructive Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable.- C.1 Jackson Type Kernels.- C.2 Polynomial Kernels Approximating the Cauchy Kernel.- C.3 Inverse Theorems.- C.4 Polynomial Approximation in Domains with Smooth Boundary.- D Miscellaneous Topics.- D.1 The Regularized Distance.- D.2 Green’s Function for a System of Intervals.- Notation.

From the reviews of the first edition: "Distributions of certain point sets are in many respects important in approximation theory. ... Many classical theorems ... deal with such problems. This book collects a number of generalizations of these theorems. ... The book is written with great care. ... This monograph is a valuable addition to the library of any researcher in approximation theory. The topic is rather specialized, but the style and the importance of potential theory in the discipline, makes it also suited for an advanced course in approximation theory." (Simon Stevin Bulletin, Vol. 11 (1), 2004) "This book is devoted to discrepancy estimates for the zero of polynomials and for signed measures. ... A remarkable feature of the book is that most of the results in it are shown to be sharp. ... This work is a valuable monograph on a field that has attracted considerable interest in the recent past, and which has various applications in approximation theory and orthogonal polynomials." (Vilmos Totik, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, Vol. 35, 2003) "This book discusses in detail the discrepancy of signed measures ... . The detailed proofs and the rich reference make this book eligible for a self-study textbook and a reference book, too." (Bela Nagy, Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum, Vol. 68, 2002)