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| May 10, 2023 at 21:51 | history | edited | R.P. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 10, 2016 at 8:37 | comment | added | Manfred Weis | @Mischa that indicates to me, that trigonometric functions probably played an important role in the discovery of the Chebyshev polynomials. | |
| Sep 10, 2016 at 2:04 | comment | added | Misha | There is a bit more to the story, as far as Chebyshev's motivation goes: He was motivated by the open (at the time) problem of constructing a mechanical linkage converting circular motion to the linear one. He did not know how to solve the problem but, as an applied mathematician, looked for approximate solutions (good approximation with few joints, whose number is roughly the degree of the polynomial). Eventually, the initial problem was solved by Peucellier and, later, by Lipkin, Chebyshov's student. | |
| Sep 9, 2016 at 21:56 | vote | accept | Manfred Weis | ||
| Sep 9, 2016 at 21:13 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 9, 2016 at 20:28 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |