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Walter Gautschi’s work in this area has had a profound impact, especially on the computational and practical aspects of Gauss quadrature. I have heard people refer to it as Gautschian quadrature, just to emphasize Walter’s many contributions to the theory and computation.
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Van Assche, W. (2014). Gauss–type quadrature. In: Brezinski, C., Sameh, A. (eds) Walter Gautschi, Volume 2. Contemporary Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7049-6_5
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