Abstract:
Matrices whose rows (or columns) consists of monomials of sequential powers are called
Vandermonde matrices and can be used to describe several useful concepts and have
properties that can be helpful for solving many kinds of problems. In this report we will
discuss this matrix and some of its properties as well as a generalization of it and how it can
be applied to polynomial curve fitting.
Demonstration of how to generate a polynomial curve fit is shown. The method used here is
the least squares method where the Vandermonde determinant is used to fit an n-degree
polynomial to a given data set.
