Timeline for Where does the Chebyshev polynomial notation come from?
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| Oct 14, 2010 at 12:39 | comment | added | slimton | Just came accross a footnote in Rivlin's "Introduction to the Approximation of Functions". After deriving the Chebyshev polynomials, footnote reads: "The notation follows another transliteration from the Russian of Chebyshev, one beginning with a T". | |
| Oct 11, 2010 at 6:47 | vote | accept | alext87 | ||
| Oct 10, 2010 at 22:32 | answer | added | Andrey Rekalo | timeline score: 12 | |
| Oct 10, 2010 at 22:16 | history | edited | Wadim Zudilin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 10, 2010 at 22:14 | history | edited | J. M. isn't a mathematician |
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| Oct 10, 2010 at 12:24 | comment | added | Péter Komjáth | Wikipedia says that these polynomials were introduced here: openlibrary.org/books/OL3472200M/… . Notice the first letter of the name of the author. | |
| Oct 10, 2010 at 10:59 | comment | added | alext87 | @Alex: Exactly! Do you have any suggestions on where to start looking? | |
| Oct 10, 2010 at 9:29 | comment | added | J. M. isn't a mathematician | Reminds me of that anecdote about Besicovitch... | |
| Oct 10, 2010 at 8:59 | comment | added | Alex B. | As Franz explained, there are at least two reasons, why the original paper is not the right place to look for the letter 'T'. Firstly, why would Chebyshev (sic) call a polynomial after himself (assuming that the modern 'T' refers to his name) and secondly, in Russian the name is Чебышев and starts with a 'Ч'. It must have been a German or a French who introduced the letter 'T'. | |
| Oct 10, 2010 at 7:16 | comment | added | alext87 | Yes, wiki mentions that it comes from Tchebychef. However I can't find any evidence of this in the literature. The original paper by Chebshev doesn't denote the polynomials by T. | |
| Oct 10, 2010 at 7:11 | comment | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | The cyrillic way of writing Chebyshev starts with a letter looking a bit like a 4, not with a T. In German transliterations, however, a T was used for the first letter (Tschebyscheff, Tchebyshew, and other variations). | |
| Oct 10, 2010 at 7:04 | comment | added | Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev_polynomials | |
| Oct 10, 2010 at 6:55 | history | asked | alext87 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |