Generate a Vandermonde Matrix of the Legendre Polynomial with Float Array of Points in Python using NumPy

In this article, we will be looking at the approach to generating a Vandermonde matrix of the Legendre polynomial with a float array of points in Python using NumPy.

Example:
Array:
 [-1.57  0.58 -3.57  1.44  2.75]
Result:
 [[ 1.000000e+00 -1.570000e+00  3.197350e+00]
 [ 1.000000e+00  5.800000e-01  4.600000e-03]
 [ 1.000000e+00 -3.570000e+00  1.861735e+01]
 [ 1.000000e+00  1.440000e+00  2.610400e+00]
 [ 1.000000e+00  2.750000e+00  1.084375e+01]]

NumPy.legvander()

To generate a pseudo Vandermonde matrix of the Legendre polynomial with a float array of points, the user has to call the NumPy.legvander() method in Python Numpy. This will return the pseudo-Vandermonde matrix the with the shape of the returned matrix is x.shape + (deg + 1,), where The last index is the degree of the corresponding Legendre polynomial. 

    Syntax : np.legvander(x, deg)

   Parameters:

•  x :[ array_like ] Array of points. The dtype is converted to float64 or complex128 depending on whether any of the elements are complex. If x is scalar it is converted to a 1-D array.
•  deg :[int] Degree of the resulting matrix.

   Return : Return the matrix having size i.e array.size + (degree + 1).

Example:

In this example, we are firstly creating an array with five data points of the float data type, and further, with the NumPy.legvander() method, we are generating a Vandermonde matrix of the Legendre polynomial with 2 degrees in python.

Output:

Array:
 [-1.57  0.58 -3.57  1.44  2.75]

Dimensions:
 1

Result:
 [[ 1.000000e+00 -1.570000e+00  3.197350e+00]
 [ 1.000000e+00  5.800000e-01  4.600000e-03]
 [ 1.000000e+00 -3.570000e+00  1.861735e+01]
 [ 1.000000e+00  1.440000e+00  2.610400e+00]
 [ 1.000000e+00  2.750000e+00  1.084375e+01]]

Example:

In this example, we are firstly creating an array with ten data points of the float data type, and further, with the NumPy.legvander() method we are generating a Vandermonde matrix of the Legendre polynomial with 5 degrees in python.

Output:

Array:

 [-1.57  0.58 -3.57  1.44  2.75 -8.97  7.45 -0.56 -4.74  3.33]

Dimensions:

 1

Result:

 [[ 1.00000000e+00 -1.57000000e+00  3.19735000e+00 -7.31973250e+00

   1.77129525e+01 -4.42010179e+01]

 [ 1.00000000e+00  5.80000000e-01  4.60000000e-03 -3.82220000e-01

  -3.91403300e-01 -1.02849045e-01]

 [ 1.00000000e+00 -3.57000000e+00  1.86173500e+01 -1.08393232e+02

   6.63223708e+02 -4.17516096e+03]

 [ 1.00000000e+00  1.44000000e+00  2.61040000e+00  5.30496000e+00

   1.14106992e+01  2.53325643e+01]

 [ 1.00000000e+00  2.75000000e+00  1.08437500e+01  4.78671875e+01

   2.22228027e+02  1.06173499e+03]

 [ 1.00000000e+00 -8.97000000e+00  1.20191350e+02 -1.79088068e+03

   2.80222060e+04 -4.51013834e+05]

 [ 1.00000000e+00  7.45000000e+00  8.27537500e+01  1.02255906e+03

   1.32695485e+04  1.77126598e+05]

 [ 1.00000000e+00 -5.60000000e-01 -2.96000000e-02  4.00960000e-01

  -3.70740800e-01  5.29387264e-02]

 [ 1.00000000e+00 -4.74000000e+00  3.32014000e+01 -2.59131060e+02

   2.12459109e+03 -1.79197064e+04]

 [ 1.00000000e+00  3.33000000e+00  1.61333500e+01  8.73200925e+01

   4.96757827e+02  2.90771034e+03]]