TABLE OF DERIVATIVES

TAYLOR SERIES
In mathematics, the Taylor series or Taylor expansion of a function is an infinite sum of terms that are
expressed in terms of the function's derivatives at a single point. For most common functions, the function and the
sum of its Taylor series are equal near this point. Taylor series are named after Brook Taylor, who introduced them
in 1715. A Taylor series is also called a Maclaurin series when 0 is the point where the derivatives are considered,
after Colin Maclaurin, who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the mid-18th century.

The Taylor series of a real or complex-valued function f (x) that is infinitely differentiable at a real or complex
number a is the power series

where n! denotes the factorial of n. In the more compact sigma notation, this can be written as

where f(n)(a) denotes the nth derivative of f evaluated at the point a. (The derivative of order zero of f is defined to
be f itself and (x − a)0 and 0! are both defined to be 1.

With a = 0, the Maclaurin series takes the form:

or in the compact sigma notation:

COMMONLY USED TAYLOR SERIES