TAYLOR SERIES


Meaning of TAYLOR SERIES in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈtā-lər- ]

noun

Etymology: Brook Taylor died 1731 English mathematician

Date: 1842

: a power series that gives the expansion of a function f ( x ) in the neighborhood of a point a provided that in the neighborhood the function is continuous, all its derivatives exist, and the series converges to the function in which case it has the form f(x) = f(a) + (f [1] (a)/1!)(x - a) + (f [2] (a)/2!)(x - a) ² + ... + (f [n] (a)/n!)(x - a)ⁿ + ... where f  [ n ] ( a ) is the derivative of nth order of f ( x ) evaluated at a — called also Taylor's series

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