Table of Contents

Basic Theory
1.1: Orthogonal polynomials
1.2: Properties of orthogonal polynomials
1.3: Three-term recurrence relation
1.4: Quadrature rules
1.5: Classical orthogonal polynomials
1.6: Kernal polynomials
1.7: Sobolev orthogonal polynomials
1.8: Orthogonal polynomials on the semicircle
1.9: Notes to chapter 1
Computational Methods
2.1: Moment-based methods
2.2: Discretization methods
2.3: Computing Cauchy integrals of orthogonal polynomials
2.4: Modification algorithms
2.5: Computing Sobolev orthogonal polynomials
2.6: Notes to chapter 2
Applications
3.1: Quadrature
3.2: Least squares approximation
3.3: Moment-preserving spline approximation
3.4: Slowly convergent series
3.5: Notes to chapter 3

About the Author

Walter Gautshi is Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, USA.

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