• PrefaceBibliographyChapter 1: Interpolation. IntroductionThe Taylor expansionThe finite Taylor series with the remainder termInterpolation by polynomialsThe remainder of Lagrangian interpolation formulaEquidistant interpolationLocal and global interpolationInterpolation by central differencesInterpolation around the midpoint of the rangeThe Laguerre polynomialsBinomial expansionsThe decisive integral transformBinomial expansions of the hypergeometric typeRecurrence relationsThe Laplace transformThe Stirling expansionOperations with the Stirling functionsAn integral transform of the Fourier typeRecurrence relations associated with the Stirling seriesInterpolation of the Fourier transformThe general integral transform associated with the Stirling series Interpolation of the Bessel functionsChapter 2: Harmonic Analysis. IntroductionThe Fourier series for differentiable functionsThe remainder of the finite Fourier expansionFunctions of higher differentiabilityAn alternative method of estimationThe Gibbs oscillations of the finite Fourier seriesThe method of the Green's functionNon-differentiable functions. Dirac's delta functionSmoothing of the Gibbs oscillations by Fejér's methodThe remainder of the arithmetic mean methodDifferentiation of the Fourier seriesThe method of the sigma factorsLocal smoothing by integrationSmoothing of the Gibbs oscillations by the sigma methodExpansion of the delta functionThe triangular pulseExtension of the class of expandable functionsAsymptotic relations for the sigma factorsThe method of trigonometric interpolationError bounds for the trigonometric interpolation methodRelation between equidistant trigonometric and polynomial interpolationsThe Fourier series in the curve fittingChapter 3: Matrix Calculus. IntroductionRectangular matricesThe basic rules of matrix calculusPrincipal axis transformation of a symmetric matrixDecomposition of a symmetric matrixSelf-adjoint systemsArbitrary n x m systemsSolvability of the general n x m systemThe fundamental decomposition theoremThe natural inverse of a matrixGeneral analysis of linear systemsError analysis of linear systemsClassification of linear systemsSolution of incomplete systemsOver-determined systemsThe method of orthogonalisationThe use of over-determined systemsThe method of successive orthogonalisationThe bilinear identityMinimum property of the smallest eigenvalueChapter 4: The Function Space. IntroductionThe viewpoint of pure and applied mathematicsThe language of geometryMetrical spaces of infinitely many dimensionsThe function as a vectorThe differential operator as a matrixThe length of a vectorThe scalar product of two vectorsThe closeness of the algebraic approximationThe adjoint operatorThe bilinear identityThe extended Green's identityThe adjoint boundary conditionsIncomplete systemsOver-determined systemsCompatibility under inhomogeneous boundary conditionsGreen's identity in the realm of partial differential operatorsThe fundamental field operations of vector analysisSolution of incomplete systemsChapter 5: The Green's Function. IntroductionThe role of the adjoint equationThe role of Green's identityThe delta function d(x, x) The existence of the Green's functionInhomogeneous boundary conditionsThe Green's vectorSelf-adjoint systemsThe calculus of variationsThe canonical equations of HamiltonThe Hamiltonisation of partial operatorsThe reciprocity theoremSelf-adjoint problems. Symmetry of the Green's functionReciprocity of the Green's vectorThe superposition principle of linear operatorsThe Green's function in the realm of ordinary differential operatorsThe change of boundary conditionsThe remainder of the Taylor seriesThe remainder of the Lagrangian interpolation formulaLagrangian interpolation with double points

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