Taylor series

Definition

About a general point

Suppose $f$ is a function that is infinitely differentiable at a point $x_{0}$ in its domain. The Taylor series of $f$ about $x_{0}$ is the power series given as follows:

$\sum _{k=0}^{\infty }{\frac {f^{(k)}(x_{0})}{k!}}(x-x_{0})^{k}$

Here's a version with the first few terms written explicitly:

$f(x_{0})+f'(x_{0})(x-x_{0})+{\frac {f''(x_{0})}{2}}(x-x_{0})^{2}+{\frac {f'''(x_{0})}{6}}(x-x_{0})^{3}+\dots$

About the point 0

In the special case of the above definition where $x_{0}=0$ (and in particular $f$ is infinitely differentiable at 0), the Taylor series is as follows:

$\sum _{k=0}^{\infty }{\frac {f^{(k)}(0)}{k!}}x^{k}$

Here's a version with the first few terms written explicitly:

$f(0)+f'(0)x+{\frac {f''(0)}{2}}x^{2}+{\frac {f'''(0)}{6}}x^{3}+\dots +$