splines

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Essays

The wood already knew

essay draft 2026-07-16 · splines, naval-architecture, history-of-computing, eniac, typography

Everything else

Do Schoenberg's 1946 B-spline papers actually use 'graduation' in its actuarial sense, or is the insurance-origin story a later gloss?

capture promoted 2026-08-29 · schoenberg, b-spline, splines, graduation, actuarial-science
Schoenberg names 'accepted actuarial practice' as the direct source of his own 'ordinary' vs. 'smoothing' interpolation-formula distinction

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · schoenberg, b-spline, splines, graduation, actuarial-science
Schoenberg's 1946 papers explicitly frame themselves as continuing a named actuarial literature on osculatory interpolation, crediting W. A. Jenkins (1926) and T. N. E. Greville (1944) as direct predecessors

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · schoenberg, b-spline, splines, graduation, actuarial-science
Schoenberg's 1946 Part A paper glosses 'graduation' as a direct synonym for 'smoothing' in its own title

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · schoenberg, b-spline, splines, graduation, actuarial-science
Isaac Schoenberg developed spline theory as a WWII Army mathematician at the Ballistic Research Laboratory — the same lab that built ENIAC — not in actuarial work

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · splines, schoenberg, ballistic-research-laboratory, eniac, history-of-computing
"Spline" was a shipbuilder's flexible lofting strip for centuries before it named a mathematical curve

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · splines, naval-architecture, craft-history, etymology, computer-graphics
Do Schoenberg's 1946 B-spline papers actually use 'graduation' in its actuarial sense, or is the insurance-origin story a later gloss?

question answered 2026-07-11 · splines, schoenberg, actuarial-history, etymology, myth-correction
The curve math under every digital font traces through car-company secrecy and ship lofting to the WWII lab that built ENIAC

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · typography, typefounding, bezier-curves, splines, computer-graphics