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The document provides information about exercises and lecture material for a mathematics course. It lists exercises that cover multiple topics from the course to be completed by Wednesday, May 15th. It also notes that the 2012 exam is available for additional practice, but none of those problems will appear on the weekly assignments. Finally, it presents Problem K which asks students to use Taylor's theorem to find polynomials that approximate the exponential function e^x over different intervals and asks about better approaches to approximating functions.

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The document provides information about exercises and lecture material for a mathematics course. It lists exercises that cover multiple topics from the course to be completed by Wednesday, May 15th. It also notes that the 2012 exam is available for additional practice, but none of those problems will appear on the weekly assignments. Finally, it presents Problem K which asks students to use Taylor's theorem to find polynomials that approximate the exponential function e^x over different intervals and asks about better approaches to approximating functions.

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01325 Mathematics 4, Spring 2013

Week no. 13
Theory: Wednesday May 15 the lecture (1 hour) will cover Section 11.2 (see
also def. 11.1.2 and def. 11.1.4). The lecture will be followed by 3 hours
problem session.
Exercises for Wednesday May 15: 10.6, 11.3, Problem 101, Problem
102, Problem 217, Problem 218, Problem 108, 11.4, 1.22
These exercises deal with several topics from the course, not just material
related to the lecture. I you have completed the program you can look at
Problem K below (you might skip the concrete calculations in (i) and (ii)
and just think about (iii) and (iv)). For the sake of repetition before the
exam, note that the file Exercises+Exam.pdf contains the exam from 2012
and that none of the problems from this exam have appeared on the weekly
programs.
Problem K We recall Taylors theorem. Assume that f : I R and that
there exists a constant C > 0 such that |f n (x)| C for all n N and all
x I. Let x0 I. Then, for x I and N N,

N
f n (x0 )
C
f (x) (x x0 )n |x x0 |N +1 .
n! (N + 1)!
n=0

Now consider the function f (x) = ex , x [0, 50].

(i) Find N N such that there exists a polynomial P of degree N such


that

|f (x) P (x)| 0.1, x [0, 50].

(ii) Find N N such that there exists a polynomial P of degree N such


that

|f (x) P (x)| 0.1, x [40, 50].

(iii) Is it realistic to approximate exponential functions by polynomials over


large intervals?

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(iv) Can you describe a more convenient approach to approximate exponen-
tial functions, or a more general class of functions? Check how your
idea works on the function f above.

Regards,
Ole

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