Chebyshev

He then replaced Watt's linkage by one that is usually called the Chebyshev straight-line mechanism (fig. 20), with the result that precision was increased to the 13th degree. [

Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960

I have seen "Chebyshev" as in Chebyshev polynomials transliterated into Roman characters about a zillion different ways - Tchebyshev, Tchebysheff, etc.

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From the abstract of a recent NBER working paper: we solve the stochastic neoclassical growth model with recursive preferences using four different approaches: second- and third-order perturbation, Chebyshev polynomials, and value function iteration.

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Researching a book about math once, I turned up 32 different Latin-alphabet spellings of the Russian name "Chebyshev."

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When we look at the famous Chebyshev inequality, P|x-m| = ks

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When we look at the famous Chebyshev inequality, P|x-m| = ks

Lamb on the Northeast Atlantic « Climate Audit 2006

Of course if it's spelled Чебышев in Russian, the correct transliteration is Chebyshev, but it's impossible to guess the correct pronunciation from that.

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There is a persistent rumor that Professor Chebyshev sought to demonstrate the impossibility of constructing any linkage, regardless of the number of links, that would generate a straight line; but I have found only a dubious statement in the _Grande Encyclopédie_ [40] of the late 19th century and a report of a conversation with the Russian by an

Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960

At length an idea occurred to Chebyshev that would enable him to approach if not quite attain a true straight line.

Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960

Chebyshev noted the departure of these linkages from a straight line and calculated the deviation as of the fifth degree, or about 0.0008 inch per inch of beam length.

Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960