We study in Part I of this monograph the computational aspect of almost all moduli of continuity over wide classes of functions exploiting some of their convexity properties. To our knowledge it is the first time the entire calculus of moduli of smoothness has been included in a book. We then present numerous applications of Approximation Theory, giving exact val- ues of errors in explicit forms. The K-functional method is systematically avoided since it produces nonexplicit constants. All other related books so far have allocated very little space to the computational aspect of moduli of...

These proceedings contain selected papers presented at the Conference on Approximation, Probability and Related Fields held in Santa Barbara, California, on May 20-22, 1993. The main topics of the conference were: 1) approximation of functions by polynomials, splines, and operators, and applications to stochastics 2) numerical methods for approximation of deterministic and stochastic integrals 3) orthogonal polynomials and stochastic processes 4) positive linear operators and related deterministic and stochastic inequalities 5) multivariate approximation and interpolation 6) rate of...