The relationships between Chebyshev, Legendre and Jacobi polynomials: the generic superiority of Chebyshev polynomials and three important exceptions

DOI10.1007/S10915-013-9751-7MaRDI QIDQ461202zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors John P. Boyd, Rolfe Petschek

Publication date 10 October 2014

Published in Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-013-9751-7

zbMATH Keywords

rate of convergenceLegendre polynomialsChebyshev polynomialsJacobi polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation by polynomials (41A10) Fourier coefficients, Fourier series of functions with special properties, special Fourier series (42A16) Orthogonal functions and polynomials, general theory of nontrigonometric harmonic analysis (42C05)

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