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In this chapter many important aspects of mathematical modeling are discussed by means of a special type of problem which is the focus of interest in the chapters to follow: An observable and continuous phenomenon occurring in reality (science, engineering etc.) is to be described using continuous mathematical models, i.e., functions. The aim of such mathematical modeling and approximation processes is to obtain analytic data (cf. Chapter 4) which deviates from the original phenomenon only within given bounds.
Soweit die Mathematik exakt ist, beschreibt sie nicht die Wirklichkeit, und soweit sie die Wirklichkeit beschreibt, ist sie nicht exakt.1 Albert Einstein
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Ueberhuber, C.W. (1997). Using Approximation in Mathematical Model Building. In: Numerical Computation 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59118-1_8
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