Approximation Theory 9th;v.1

This meticulously edited selection of papers comes out of the Ninth International Symposium on Approximation Theory held in Nashville, Tennessee, in January, 1998. Each volume contains several invited survey papers written by experts in the field, along with contributed research papers.

This book should be of great interest to mathematicians, engineers, and computer scientists working in approximation theory, wavelets, computer-aided geometric design (CAGD), and numerical analysis.

Among the topics included in the books are the following:

adaptive approximation

approximation by harmonic functions

approximation by radial basis functions

approximation by ridge functions

approximation in the complex plane

Bernstein polynomials

bivariate splines

constructions of multiresolution analyses

convex approximation

frames and frame bases

Fourier methods

generalized moduli of smoothness

interpolation and approximation by splines on triangulations

multiwavelet bases

neural networks

nonlinear approximation

quadrature and cubature

rational approximation

refinable functions

subdivision schemes

thin plate splines

wavelets and wavelet systems