On comparing the writhe of a smooth curve to the writhe of an inscribed polygon

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1846-1861

  Cantarella, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical quadrature; Writhing number

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL QUADRATURE; WRITHING NUMBERS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS;

CURVE FITTING;

EID: 27744467911     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142902403164     Document Type: Article

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