This survey revisits Jenő Egerváry and Otto Szász’s article of 1928 on trigonometric polynomials and simple structured matrices focussing mainly on the latter topic. In particular, we concentrate on the spectral theory for the first type of the matrices introduced in the article, which are today referred to as k-tridiagonal matrices, and then discuss the explosion of interest in them over the last two decades, most of which could have benefitted from the seminal article, had it not been overlooked.

In this paper, new formulas for the Fibonacci polynomials, including high-order derivatives and repeated integrals of them, are derived in terms of the polynomials themselves. The results are then used to solve connection problems between the Fibonacci and orthogonal polynomials. The inverse cases are also studied. Finally, new results for the linear products of the Fibonacci and orthogonal polynomials are determined using the earlier result for the moments formula of Fibonacci polynomials.