8 Numerical Differentiation and Integration

Derivatives and integrals of functions known only through tables, or too complicated to treat exactly, must be approximated from function values. The idea throughout is the same: replace \(f\) by an interpolating polynomial, differentiate or integrate the polynomial, and use the interpolation error formula of Theorem 6.1.3 to obtain the error.

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