- Weekly Assignment 7 is ... not graded:( I'll get it back by tomorrow).
- Weekly HW 8 is assigned, and due Monday -- in preparation for the exam.
- Exam 3 is Tuesday, 4/9. It will cover everything in Chapter 11.
- Having just encountered the most beautiful equation in
mathematics, it's hard to top that. Euler's identity,
$e^{i\pi}+1=0$:
Stare at it for a moment and see if your brain lights up!
Not everyone is in complete agreement, however: some prefer other equations, and I was interested especially in this one:
- Today we think about how to use Taylor series to approximate functions (using what are partial sums, called Taylor Polynomials).
- We'll begin by reviewing what we did last time, looking at the last two problems in Sect. 11.10: Taylor series (pdf, pdf summary)
Then on to the last section in Chapter 11, Sect. 11.11: Taylor polynomials (pdf, pdf summary)
- A riff off what we're doing, more appropriate for calc III