The Art of Polynomial Interpolation
The inspiration for this text grew out of a simple question that emerged over a number of years of teaching math to Middle School, High School and College students. Practically speaking, what is the origin of a particular polynomial? So much time is spent analyzing, factoring, simplifying and graphi...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Techniques
- Chapter One - Elimination (Substitution) Interpolation
- Chapter One - Practice Exercises
- Chapter Two - Newton's Divided Difference Interpolation
- Chapter Two- Practice Exercises
- Chapter Three- Quadratic Spline Interpolation
- Chapter Three- Practice Exercises
- Chapter Four - Least Squares Regression
- Chapter Four- Practice Exercises
- Chapter Five- Measuring the Least Squares Fit/Exponential Least Squares Regression
- Chapter Five- Practice Exercises
- Chapter Six - Approximation with Taylor Series
- Chapter Six- Practice Exercises
- Chapter Seven - Taylor Series Remainder Test
- Chapter Seven- Practice Exercises
- Solutions to Selected Practice Exercises
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Versioning History