Etymology

Runge's phenomenon

Today it means: A problem of oscillation at the edges of an interval that occurs when using polynomial interpolation with polynomials of high degree over a set of equispaced interpolation points. Full definition →

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The story

Discovered by Carl David Tolmé Runge (1901).

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