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Basic Concepts

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Methods in Approximation

Part of the book series: Mathematics and Its Applications ((MAIA,volume 26))

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A successful approximation has the following three properties:

  1. (a)

    A well defined mathematical problem

  2. (b)

    A rational method for deriving and approximating problems and/or solutions,

  3. (c)

    A measure of the error incurred in using these approximations.

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  • Gillman, L, and M. Jerison:1960, Rings of Continuous Functions, Springer

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Bellman, R.E., Roth, R.S. (1986). Basic Concepts. In: Methods in Approximation. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4600-2_1

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