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THE theory of interpolation is a subject which has progressed more slowly than many other branches of mathematics, and the reason is not far to seek. A practical computer is sufficiently occupied in performing lengthy calculations and leaves the mathematician to provide the necessary equipment. The mathematician, when interested in interpolation-series expansions, looks primarily at the question as a branch of the theory of infinite series, which is of little use to a computer needing limits to the error involved after the first few terms.
Interpolation.
By Prof. J. F. Steffensen. Pp. ix + 248. (Baltimore, Md.: Williams and Wilkins Co.; London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1927.) 36s. net.
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Interpolation . Nature 119, 921 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119921b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119921b0