Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2009
Just over 60 years ago, G. Grünwald and J. Marcinkiewicz discovered a divergence phenomenon pertaining to Lagrange interpolation polynomials based on the Chebyshev nodes of the first kind. The main result of the present paper is an extension of their now classical theorem. In particular, we shall show that this divergence phenomenon occurs for odd higher order Hermite–Fejér interpolation polynomials of which Lagrange interpolation polynomials form one special case.