Applied mathematics connects the mathematical theory to the reality by solving real world problems and shows the power of the science of mathematics, greatly improving our lives. Therefore it plays a very active and central role in the scientific world.This volume contains 14 high quality survey articles — incorporating original results and describing the main research activities of contemporary applied mathematics — written by top people in the field. The articles have been written in review style, so that the researcher can have a quick and thorough view of what is happening in the main subfields of applied mathematics.Contents:Two Contemporary Computational Concepts in Numerical Analysis (I K Argyros)On the Simultaneous Approximation of Functions and Their Derivatives (T Kilgore)Copositive Polynomial Approximation Revisited (Y K Hu & X M Yu)Sampling Theory and Function Spaces (H-J Schmeisser & W Sickel)Evaluating Statistical Functionals by Means of Projections onto Convex Cones in Hilbert Spaces: Part I and II (T Rychlik)Extrapolation: From Calculation of π to Finite Element Method of Partial Differential Equations (X-P Shen)A Survey on Scaling Function Interpolation and Approximation (E-B Lin)and other papersReadership: Applied mathematicians, statisticians, economists and engineers.Key Features:The author is the Professor Emeritus of Mathematics in University of Texas at Arlington. He is well known for his long and qualified experience in teaching and research