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The use of associated Legendre polynomials for interpolation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

E. L. Albasiny
Affiliation:
The National Physical Laboratory Teddington

Abstract

Several writers have dealt with the use of Chebyshev polynomials as aids to interpolation. The present paper considers the theory with associated Legendre polynomials replacing those of Chebyshev. Interpolation formulae of both Bessel and Everett type are derived, and formulae and expansions are given for evaluating the coefficients required in them either directly or in terms of derivatives or central differences. The introduction summarizes a number of formulae for polynomial interpolation and indicates the relationship between the new formulae and the old.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1961

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