On 3/27/07, Avi <avi_wiki(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
We are quoted in this month's issue of Focus, the Mathematical Association of
America's newsletter, on page 5, for bringing a source for the term
"spline".
PDF link here:
http://www.maa.org/pubs/march07web.pdf
I fear we at wikipedia, and consequently that MAA article as well has it wrong. I rather
suspect that splines were used already by folks copying illustrated manuscripts way back
int the day, well before aeronautics had significantly progressed beyond flapping wing
mechanisms.
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