Tchebycheff equation

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[chuh-buh-shawf i-kwey-zhuhn, ‐shuhn] / tʃə bəˈʃɔf ɪˌkweɪ ʒən, ‐ʃən /

noun

Mathematics.

a differential equation of the form (1 − x2 ) d 2 y/dx 2 − x dy/dx + n 2 y = 0, where n is any nonnegative integer.

Named after Pafnutiĭ L. Chebyshev (1821–94), Russian mathematician

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