“…Several generalizations of the classical Padé approximants have been considered: multipoint Padé approximants, Padé approximants to orthogonal expansions, to Faber series and trigonometric series, Hermite-Padé approximation, and others (see [8], [11], [12], [26], [30], [31], [97], [123], [124], [132]- [139]). All these cases are concerned with approximation by rational functions with free poles, and the approximants themselves have a non-linear character.…”