Archimedes’ hat-box theorem states that uniform measure on a sphere projects to uniform measure on an interval. This fact can be used to derive Simpson’s rule. We present various constructions of, and lower bounds for, numerical cubature formulas using moment maps as a generalization of Archimedes’ theorem. We realize some well-known cubature formulas on simplices as projections of spherical de...

Gauss quadrature is a well-known method for estimating the integral of a continuous function with respect to a given measure as a weighted sum of the function evaluated at a set of node points. Gauss quadrature is traditionally developed using orthogonal polynomials. We show that Gauss quadrature can also be obtained as the solution to an infinite-dimensional linear program (LP): minimize the n...

Some relationships are established between trigonometric quadrature and various classical quadrature formulas. In particular Gauss-Legendre quadrature is shown to be a limiting case of trigonometric quadrature. In an earlier paper [1] it was noted that there exist trigonometric and exponential analogs of Gaussian quadrature formulas. We now extend those results to show several interesting featu...

Abstract. Gauss quadrature is a popular approach to approximate the value of a desired integral determined by a measure with support on the real axis. Laurie proposed an (n+1)-point quadrature rule that gives an error of the same magnitude and of opposite sign as the associated n-point Gauss quadrature rule for all polynomials of degree up to 2n + 1. This rule is referred to as an anti-Gauss ru...

We employ a hyperbolic tangent function to construct nonlinear transformations which are useful in numerical evaluation of weakly singular integrals and Cauchy principal value integrals. Results of numerical implementation based on the standard Gauss quadrature rule show that the present transformations are available for the singular integrals and, in some cases, give much better approximations...