The book incorporates research papers and surveys written by participants ofan International Scientific Programme on Approximation Theory jointly supervised by

Most functions that occur in mathematics cannot be used directly in computer calculations. Instead they are approximated by manageable functions such as polynom

This book is intended as a self-contained introduction for non-specialists, or as a reference work for experts, to the particular area of approximation theory t

The contributions to this volume are devoted to a discussion of state-of-the-art research and treatment of problems of a wide spectrum of areas in complex analy