Maclaurin series

English

Etymology

Named after Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746), who made extensive use of the series.

Noun

Maclaurin series (plural Maclaurin series)

1. (calculus) Any Taylor series that is centred at 0 (i.e., for which the origin is the reference point used to derive the series from its associated function); for a given infinitely differentiable complex function $\textstyle f$, the power series $\textstyle f(0)+{\frac {f'(0)}{1!}}x+{\frac {f''(0)}{2!}}x^{2}+{\frac {f'''(0)}{3!}}x^{3}+\cdots =\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {f^{(n)}(0)}{n!}}\,x^{n}$.
   • 1953, Raymond Lyttleton, The Stability of Rotating Liquid Masses, Paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, published 2013, page 42:

     Analytically there are, of course, two Jacobi series branching off the Maclaurin series, but they are geometrically and physically identical, and involve only an interchange of a and b.

   • 1995, Ralph P. Boas, Gerald L. Alexanderson (editor), Dale H. Mugler (editor), Lion Hunting and Other Mathematical Pursuits, Mathematical Association of America, page 88,

     If the Maclaurin series of f and g converge for |z| < r and g(z) ≠ 0 for 0 ≤ |z| < r, then if the Maclaurin series for f is divided by the Maclaurin series for g by long division (as if the series were polynomials), the resulting series represents f / g for |z| < r.

   • 1997, Frank Smithies, Cauchy and the Creation of Complex Function Theory, Cambridge University Press, page 203:

     It was almost as a by-product of this work that, in the first Turin memoir, he proved the convergence of the Maclaurin series of a function up to the singularity nearest to the origin (Section 7.5); it was in this context that he created what he called 'calculus of limits', later known as the method of majorants.

Hypernyms

• (Taylor series centred at 0): power series, Taylor series

Translations

Taylor series centred at 0

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬克勞林級數／马克劳林级数

• Danish: Maclaurinrække
• German: Maclaurin-Reihe f, maclaurinsche Reihe f
• Italian: serie di Maclaurin f
• Japanese: マクローリン級数
• Romanian: serie Maclaurin f