Maclaurin Series

A Maclaurin series is a Taylor series expansion of a function about 0,

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Maclaurin series are named after the Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin. may be found using Series[f, x, 0, n ]. The th term of a

The Maclaurin series of a function Maclaurin series of a function

up to order

can be computed in Mathematica using SeriesCoefficient[f, x, 0, n ] and is

given by the inverse Z-transform

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Maclaurin series are a type of series expansion in which all terms are nonnegative integer powers of the variable. Other more general types of series include the Laurent series and the Puiseux series.

Maclaurin series for common functions include

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The explicit forms for some of these are

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where polynomial.

is a gamma function,

is a Bernoulli number,

is an Euler number and

is a Legendre