(PhysOrg.com) -- In his discussion of accelerated motion on page 60 of The Meaning of Relativity, Albert Einstein made an approximation that allowed him to develop the theory of relativity further.

Approximation theory investigates how complex functions or data can be represented by simpler mathematical entities—such as polynomials, splines, wavelets or ...

Function spaces provide a framework for analysing classes of functions by measuring their size, smoothness and structural properties. Central examples include Lebesgue spaces (Lp), Sobolev spaces ...

This course teaches commonly used approximation methods in quantum mechanics. They include time-independent perturbation theory, time-dependent perturbation theory, tight binding method, variational ...