Spline Functions: Basic Theory (Paperback, 3 Revised edition)

1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Polynomials; 4. Polynomial splines; 5. Computational methods; 6. Approximation power of splines; 7. Approximation power of splines (free knots); 8. Other spaces of polynomial splines; 9. Tchebycheffian splines; 10. L-Splines; 11. Generalized splines; 12. Tensor-product splines; 13. Some multidimensional tools; Supplement; References; New references; Index.