[Maxima] taylor expansion in 1D

Edwin Woollett woollett at charter.net
Mon Jul 21 12:52:49 CDT 2008


Can I use taylor(...) with extra massaging to
generate a formal expansion like;

f(x + e)  --> f(x)  + e* 'diff( f(x), x, 1)
                      + e^2 * 'diff( f(x), x, 2) / 2  + ...

??  or can this be done with pdiff ?

What about 2D?

Ted Woollett



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