chebyshev_interp_1d


chebyshev_interp_1d, a Python code which determines the combination of Chebyshev polynomials which interpolates a set of data, so that p(x(i)) = y(i).

CHEBYSHEV_INTERP_1D needs the R8LIB code. The test program needs the TEST_INTERP code.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

chebyshev_interp_1d is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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Reference:

  1. Kendall Atkinson,
    An Introduction to Numerical Analysis,
    Prentice Hall, 1989,
    ISBN: 0471624896,
    LC: QA297.A94.1989.
  2. Philip Davis,
    Interpolation and Approximation,
    Dover, 1975,
    ISBN: 0-486-62495-1,
    LC: QA221.D33
  3. David Kahaner, Cleve Moler, Steven Nash,
    Numerical Methods and Software,
    Prentice Hall, 1989,
    ISBN: 0-13-627258-4,
    LC: TA345.K34.

Source Code:

The program plots a piecewise linear interpolant to the original data, and the Chebyshev interpolant.


Last modified on 27 July 2017.