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On Tchebycheff Quadrature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Paul Erdös
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Calgary
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Tchebycheff proposed the problem of finding n + 1 constants A, x 1, x 2, . . , xn ( — 1 ≤ x 1 < x 2 < . . . < xn ≤ +1) such that the formula

(1)

is exact for all algebraic polynomials of degree ≤n. In this case it is clear that A = 2/n. Later S. Bernstein (1) proved that for n ≥ 10 not all the xi 's can be real. For a history of the problem and for more references see Natanson (4).

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965