《样条函数实用指南（修订版）》是**数学家Carl de Boor的《样条函数实用指南》（1978）的修订版。原版本许多错误在修订版中得到了全面纠正。尤其是第九章到第十一章作了较大的修改，B-样条理论是直接建立在不依赖于均差的递归关系。这使得节点插入成为一个提供B-样条序列保形特性简单证明的强有力工具。
本书的章节安排详略得当，**突出，有利于读者学习理解。**章简要讲述了多项式插值，特别是均差理论。第二章介绍了初步的多项式逼近论知识，并为讲述分段多项式函数做准备。只想了解样条函数大体知识的读者可以略过随后的四章。它们主要讲述了分段线性逼近、分段立方插值以及抛物型样条插值。第七、八章讲述了任意序的分段多项式函数的计算处理。第九、十、十一章介绍了B-样条。余下的几章介绍了各种应用，几乎都涉及到B-样条。每章后面都附有习题，供读者练习和加深理解，并且附有不少图形和程序。本书讲解透彻，但某些基本知识被略去，要求读者有较好的数值逼近、几何等的基础。

Preface
Notation
I Polynomial Interpolation
Polynomial Interpolation:Lagrange form
Polynomial Interpolation:Divided differences and Newton Form
Divided difference table
Example:Osculatory interpolation to the logarithm
Evaluation of the Newton form
Example:COmputing the derivatives of a polynomial in Newton form
Other polynomial forms and conditions
Problems
II Limitations of Polynomial Approximation
Uniform spacing of data can have bad consquences
Chebyshev sites are good
Runge example with Chebyshev sites
Squareroot example
Interpolation at Chebyshev sites is nearly optimal
The distance form polynomials
Problems
III Piecewise Linear Approximation
Broken line interpolation
Borken line interpolation is nearly optimal
Least-squares approximation by broken lines
Good meshes
Problems
IV Piecewise Cubic Interpolation
Piecewise cubic Hermite interpolation
Runge example continued
Piecewise cubic Bessel interpolation
Akimas interpolation
Cubic spline interpolation
Boundary conditions
Problems
V Best Approximation Properties of Complete Cubic Spline Interpolation and Its Error
Problems
VI Parablolic Spline Interpolation
Problems
VII A Representation for Piecewise Polynomial Functions
VIII The Spaces II and the Truncated Power Basis
IX The Representation of PP Functions by B-Splines
X The Stable Evaluation of B-Splines and Sploines
XI The B-Spline Series Control Points and Knot Insertion
XII Local Spline Approximation and the Distance from Splines
XIII Spline Interpolation
XIV Smoothing and Least-Squares APproximation
XV The Numerical Solution of an Ordinary Differential Equation by Collocation
XVI Taut Splines Periodic Splines Cardinal SAplines and the APproximation of Curves
XVII Surface Approximation by Tensor Products
Postscript on Things Not Covered
Appendix:Fortran Programs
Bibliography
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