Book, Tables of Lagrangian Interpolation Coefficients
Book, Tables of Lagrangian Interpolation Coefficients
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- Description
- This bound book of tables was published by the Mathematical Tables Project in New York, using the services of Columbia University Press. The volume first appeared in 1944, with this second printing in 1948. It contains tables of the Lagrangian interpolation coefficients used to approximate the value of a function by a polynomial.
- For a summary of the tables project, see 1988.3105.15.
- This example of the publication was owned by the German- American statistician, mathematician and computer pioneer Carl Hammer (1914-2004).
- Refernce:
- D. H. L., Review of volume in Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 1, Julu, 1944, pp. 314-315.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Book
- Date made
- 1948
- maker
- Mathematical Tables Project
- Lowan, Arnold N.
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 cm x 20.8 cm x 27.2 cm; 1 3/16 in x 8 3/16 in x 10 23/32 in
- ID Number
- 1988.3105.24
- nonaccession number
- 1988.3105
- catalog number
- 1988.3105.24
- Credit Line
- Gift of Carl Hammer
- subject
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Mathematical Charts and Tables
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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