Global Smoothness and Shape Preserving Interpolation by Classical Operators [Hardcover]

This monograph examines in detail two aspects in the field of interpolation of functions -the Global Smoothness Preservation Property (GSPP) and the Shape Preservation Property (SPP). By considering well-known classical interpolation operators such as Lagrange, Gr?nwald, Hermite-Fej?r and Shepard type, the study is mainly developed for the univariate and bivariate cases. One of the first books on the subject, it presents to the reader, recent work featuring many new interesting results in this field, including an excellent survey of past research. Accompanied by numerous open problems, an updated set of references, and an appendix featuring illustrations of nine types of Shepard surfaces, this unique text is best suited to graduate students and researchers in mathematical analysis, interpolation of functions, pure and applied mathematicians in numerical analysis, approximation theory, data fitting, computer aided geometric design, fluid mechanics, and engineering researchers.

From the reviews:

One of the main features of the book is the systematic treatment of both the univariate case in the first two chapters and the bivariate case in the last two chapters.& Many results have been obtained by the author himself in collaboration with other mathematicians.& Every chapter ends with some bibliographical remarks and a discussion of open problems, which may be very helpful for researchers and specialists in the fields of approximation theory and numerical analysis. Mathematical Reviews

Many of the presented results are published in this monograph for the first time.& This book is written for researchers in approximation theory, and it contains a large number of resul³(