RES.18-006 | Fall 2010 | Undergraduate

Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus

Part VII: Infinite Series

Lecture 4: Polynomial Approximations

Topics covered: Using an nth degree polynomial to approximate a function f(x); how to choose the coefficients; power series; Taylor’s Remainder Theorem; expressing functions in terms of power series.

Instructor/speaker: Prof. Herbert Gross

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Fall 2010
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