SPLINE FUNCTIONS： Basic Theory

This book developed out of a set of lecture notes which I began preparing in the fall of 1970 for a course on spline functions at the University of Texas at Austin. The material, which I have been reworking ever since~ was expanded and revised several times for later courses at the Mathematics Research Center in Madison, the University of Munich, the University of Texas, and the Free University of Berlin. It was my original intent to cover both the theory and applications of spline functions in a single monograph, but the amount of interesting and useful material is so large that I found it impossible to give all of it a complete and comprehensive treatment in one volume.