Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894)
- Chebyshev, P. L., Théorie des mécanismes connus
sous le nom de parallélogrammes, Mém. Acad. Sci.
Pétersb. 7 (1854), 539-568. Also to be found in
Oeuvres de P. L. Tchebychef, Volume 1, 111-143, Chelsea, New York,
1961.
- Chebyshev, P. L., Sur les questions de minima qui se rattachent
à la représentation approximative des fonctions,
Mém. Acad. Sci. Pétersb. 7 (1859), 199-291.
Also to be found in Oeuvres de P. L. Tchebychef, Volume 1, 273-378,
Chelsea, New York, 1961.
- Butzer, P., and F. Jongmans, P. L. Chebyshev (1821-1894), a guide
to his life and work, J. Approx. Theory 96
(1999), 111-138. For those with access, this article may be viewed at IDEAL.
- Butzer, P. L., and F. Jongmans, P. L. Chebyshev (1821-1894) and
his contacts with Western European scientists, Historia Math.
16 (1989), 46-68.
- Goncharov, V. L.,
The Theory of Best Approximation of Functions,
J. Approx. Theory 106 (2000), 2-57.
This article, here translated into English, was originally published in
1945 in the collection The Scientific Heritage of P. L. Chebyshev. I.
Mathematics, pp. 122-172, Nauka. See also the commentary by V. M.
Tikhomirov on pages 58-65 which follows the above article. For those with
access, this article may be viewed at IDEAL.
The commentray by V. M. Tikhomirov may be viewed at IDEAL.
- Tikhomirov, V. M., The papers of P. L. Chebyshev on approximation
theory, (Russian) Vestnik Moskov. Univ. Ser. I Mat. Mekh.
119 (1995), 86-90, translation in Moscow Univ. Math. Bull.
50, 39-42 (1996).