Download or read book Selected Topics in Approximation and Computation written by Marek Kowalski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-31 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected Topics in Approximation and Computation addresses the relationship between modern approximation theory and computational methods. The text is a combination of expositions of basic classical methods of approximation leading to popular splines and new explicit tools of computation, including Sinc methods, elliptic function methods, and positive operator approximation methods. It also provides an excellent summary of worst case analysis in information based complexity. It relates optimal computational methods with the theory of s-numbers and n-widths. It can serve as a text for senior-graduate courses in computer science and applied mathematics, and also as a reference for professionals.