A legacy from E. I. Zolotarev (1847-1878)

DOI10.1007/BF03028357MaRDI QIDQ1101092zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Todd

Publication date 1988

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03028357

zbMATH Keywords

approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of approximations and expansions (41-03)

Recommendations

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Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3927548 (Why is no real title available?)
• Zolotarev's first problem - the best approximation by polynomials of degree \(\leq n-2\) to \(x^ n-n\sigma x^{n-1}\) in [-1,1]

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• The distribution of zeros and poles of asymptotically extremal rational functions for Zolotarev's problem
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3927548 (Why is no real title available?)
• Zolotarev's first problem - the best approximation by polynomials of degree \(\leq n-2\) to \(x^ n-n\sigma x^{n-1}\) in [-1,1]
• Solving Kaltofen's challenge on Zolotarev's approximation problem

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