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In Chapters 2 and 3 we have discussed methods of numerical linear algebra. In this chapter we turn to another central question in numerical analysis, the approximation of mathematical objects. The methods presented here have a wide variety of applications.
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Hämmerlin, G., Hoffman, KH. (1991). Approximation. In: Numerical Mathematics. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4442-4_4
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