Front Matter ....Pages i-vii
Some Applications of Polynomial and Spline Approximation (Lothar Collatz)....Pages 1-15
Spline Blended Approximation of Multivariate Functions (Charles Hall)....Pages 17-34
Vector-Valued Polynomial and Spline Approximation (Charles Hall)....Pages 35-67
The Construction of a Macro Element for use in Three Dimensional Fracture Mechanics (Charles Hall)....Pages 69-81
Simultaneous Approximation of Function and Derivative on [0,β] and an Application to Initial Value Problems (Charles Hall)....Pages 83-90
Composite Methods for Generating Surfaces (Peter Lancaster)....Pages 91-102
Moving Weighted Least-Squares Methods (Peter Lancaster)....Pages 103-120
Polynomial Splines and Difference Equations (GΓΌnter Meinardus)....Pages 121-135
Periodic Splines (GΓΌnter Meinardus)....Pages 137-146
Periodic Splines and Fourier Analysis (GΓΌnter Meinardus)....Pages 147-154
Computation of the Norms of Some Spline Interpolation Operators (GΓΌnter Meinardus)....Pages 155-161
An Intrinsic Approach to Multivariate Spline Interpolation at Arbitrary Points (Jean Meinguet)....Pages 163-190
Inequalities of Markoff and Bernstein (Q. I. Rahman)....Pages 191-201
Simultaneous Interpolation and Approximation (R. Gervais, Q. I. Rahman, G. Schmeisser)....Pages 203-223
A Survey of Recent Results on Optimal Recovery (T. J. Rivlin)....Pages 225-245
An Introduction to Non-Linear Splines (Helmut Werner)....Pages 247-306
Back Matter ....Pages 307-321