We analyze the asymptotic rates of convergence of Chebyshev, Legendre and Jacobi polynomials. One complication is that there are many reasonable measures of optimality as enumerated here. Another is that there are at least three exceptions to the general principle that Chebyshev polynomials give the fastest rate of convergence from the larger family of Jacobi polynomials. When f (x) is singular...

The theory of derivatives and integrals of fractional in fractional calculus have found enormousapplications in mathematics, physics and engineering so for that reason we need an efficient and accurate computational method for the solution of fractional differential equations. This paper presents a numerical method for solving a class of linear and nonlinear multi-order fractional differential ...

Recently several authors have investigated the question of approximating certain functions by reciprocals of polynomials under the uniform norm on the positive real axis . Perhaps these results have some applications in industry and elsewhere (cf. [1, 36]) . Our present motivation is to give a detailed list of all the known results with simplified proofs in some cases and many new results and f...

Rational Chebyshev approximations are given for the complete Fermi-Dirac integrals of orders — \, \ and f. Maximal relative errors vary with the function and interval considered, but generally range down to 10~9 or less.

Variable degree polynomial (VDP) splines have recently proved themselves as a valuable tool in obtaining shape preserving approximations. However, some usual properties which one would expect of a spline space in order to be useful in geometric modeling, do not follow easily from their definition. This includes total positivity (TP) and variation diminishing, but also constructive algorithms ba...