Linear interpolation on a triangle

This page is dedicated to estimates for the error in linear interpolation (interpolation by linear polynomials) to (function values at) the vertices of a triangle (and more generally a simplex). Great amounts of effort have been lavished on this problem by numerical analysts because of the connection with finite elements (linear interpolation at the vertices of a triangle is Courant's finite element), and by approximation theorists because it is the simplest nontrivial example of multivariate Lagrange interpolation (see here).

Some recent work and people involved

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