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Power Series and Taylor Series — Calculus for Finance / Economists — Kynotic Academy
Ch 20
Power Series and Taylor Series
11 min
Imagine you need to find without a calculator—just pen and paper. You might wonder if there is a way to replace with a simple polynomial that gives a nearly perfect answer near . That is exactly what power series do: they turn familiar functions into infinite-degree polynomials that we can study, differentiate, integrate, and approximate. In this chapter we learn how to build these polynomial representations and how to measure just how good they are.