The author is well known for his clarity of writing and his many contributions as a researcher in approximation theory. This book covers the main topics concerned with interpolation and approximation by polynomials.

In this second edition of Chiefs and Challengers, Phillips brings the story into the twentieth century by drawing upon recent historical and anthropological scholarship and upon seldom-used documentary evidence.

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