Chebyshev polynomials in the 16th century

DOI10.1016/J.JAT.2022.105767MaRDI QIDQ2139170zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Walter Van Assche

Publication date 17 May 2022

Published in Journal of Approximation Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10955

zbMATH Keywords

Chebyshev polynomialsregular polygonshistory of mathematics.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Orthogonal functions and polynomials, general theory of nontrigonometric harmonic analysis (42C05) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

Abstract: We give a few examples of Chebyshev polynomials that appeared in mathematical problems from the 16th and 17th century. The main example is the famous equation of Adrianus Romanus (Adriaan van Roomen) containing a polynomial of degree $45$.

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