Spherical harmonics and approximations on the unit sphere: An introduction

Lecture Notes in Mathematics

Volumn 2044, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-253

  Atkinson, Kendall ^a   Han, Weimin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 84857843984     PISSN: 00758434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25983-8_1     Document Type: Article

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