Preface 1. Qualitative theory of linear approximation 2. Qualitative theory of the best rational approximation 3. Some classical results in the linear theory 4. Approximation of some important functions 5. Uniform approximation of some function classes 6. Converse theorems for rational approximation 7. Spline approximation and Besov spaces 8. Relations between rational and spline approximations 9. Approximation with respect to Hausdorff distance 10. The o-effect 11. Lower bounds 12. Pade approximations Appendix References Author index Notation and subject index.
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