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Up to now we have only discussed some particular cases of the uniform ap- proximation problem, which were far from a mathematical theory. Indeed fifty years would pass, until Pafnuti Lvovich Chebyshev first posed a general problem of that theory that would then be named after him.
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(2006). Pafnuti Lvovich Chebyshev. In: Anastassiou, G.A. (eds) The History of Approximation Theory. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4475-X_2
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