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In many applications of mathematics, we face functions which are far more complicated than the standard functions from classical analysis. Some of these functions can not be expressed in closed form via the standard functions, and some are only known implicitly or via their graph. Think, for example, of an electric circuit, where we are measuring the current at a certain point as a function of time: the outcome might be quite complicated, and best described via a graph.
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Christensen, O., Christensen, K.L. (2004). Approximation with Polynomials. In: Approximation Theory. Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4448-2_1
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