TY - BOOK AU - Cheney,E.W. AU - Light,W.A. ED - American Mathematical Society. TI - A course in approximation theory T2 - Graduate studies in mathematics SN - 9780821847985 AV - QA221 .C44 2009 PY - 2009///?] CY - Providence, R.I. PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Approximation theory KW - Textbooks N1 - Originally published: Pacific Grove : Brooks/Cole Pub. Company, c2000; Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-354) and indexes; Contents; Ch. 1 Introductory Discussion of Interpolation ; Ch. 2 Linear Interpolation Operators ; Ch. 3 Optimization of the Lagrange Operator ; Ch. 4 Multivariate Polynomials ; Ch. 5 Moving the Nodes ; Ch. 6 Projections ; Ch. 7 Tensor-Product Interpolation ; Ch. 8 The Boolean Algebra of Projections ; Ch. 9 The Newton Paradigm for Interpolation ; Ch. 10 The Lagrange Paradigm for Interpolation ; Ch. 11 Interpolation by Translates of a Single Function ; Ch. 12 Positive Definite Functions ; Ch. 13 Strictly Positive Definite Functions ; Ch. 14 Completely Monotone Functions ; Ch. 15 The Schoenberg Interpolation Theorem ; Ch. 16 The Micchelli Interpolation Theorem ; Ch. 17 Positive Definite Functions on Spheres ; Ch. 18 Approximation by Positive Definite Functions ; Ch. 19 Approximate Reconstruction of Functions and Tomography ; Ch. 20 Approximation by Convolution ; Ch. 21 The Good Kernels ; Ch. 22 Ridge Functions ; Ch. 23 Ridge Function Approximation via Convolutions ; Ch. 24 Density of Ridge Functions ; Ch. 25 Artificial Neural Networks ; Ch. 26 Chebyshev Centers ; Ch. 27 Optimal Reconstruction of Functions ; Ch. 28 Algorithmic Orthogonal Projections ; Ch. 29 Cardinal B-Splines and the Sinc Function ; Ch. 30 The Golomb-Weinberger Theory ; Ch. 31 Hilbert Function Spaces and Reproducing Kernels ; Ch. 32 Spherical Thin-Plate Splines ; Ch. 33 Box Splines ; Ch. 34 Wavelets, I ; Ch. 35 Wavelets, II ; Ch. 36 Quasi-Interpolation ; Bibliography ; Index ; Index of Symbols ER -