
Intermediate calculus : infinite series
Title:
Intermediate calculus : infinite series
Author:
Geveci, Tunc., author.
ISBN:
9781606508671
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (iv, 146 pages) : illustrations.
General Note:
Co-published with Cognella Academic Publishing.
Includes index.
Contents:
1. Approximation of arbitrary functions using Taylor polynomials -- Taylor polynomials based at 0 -- Taylor polynomials based at an arbitrary point --
2. Error in approximation using Taylor polynomials -- The error in the approximation by a Taylor polynomial -- The limit as the order of Taylor polynomial increases --
3. Introduction to the infinite series --
4. Tests for absolute convergence -- The monotone convergence principle and absolute -- Convergence -- The ratio test -- The root test -- The proofs of the ratio test and the root test --
5. An introduction to power series -- The definitions -- Convergence properties of a power series -- Differentiation of functions defined by power series --
6. Using termwise integration, multiplication and division to determine Taylor series -- Termwise integration of power series -- Arithmetic operations on Taylor series -- The binomial series --
7. Testing for absolute convergence with the integral and comparison tests -- The integral test -- Error estimates related to the integral test -- Comparison tests --
8. Using conditional convergence to determine alternating series -- Alternating series --
9. An introduction to the Fourier series -- Fourier series of 2[pi]-periodic functions -- Fourier series when the period is different from 2[pi] --
Index.
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