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The Introduction to Infinite Series*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

W J. Dobbs
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In the Report of the Education Reform Council, published last year under the title “Education Reform,” a paragraph occurs on page 84 with reference to the Mathematics Course suitable for boys of 16 to 18 years of age attending a Secondary School. There it is suggested that such boys who take up Mathematics and Science may pursue the study of differential and integral calculus, including the easy parts of differential equations, and apply these with advantage to higher algebra, trigonometry, coordinate geometry, solid geometry and mechanics; that the course should include some introduction to infinite series; that too much time has been devoted hitherto to the binomial series; and that the thing to aim at is Taylor’s series.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 9 , Issue 135 , May 1918 , pp. 242 - 246
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1908

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Footnotes

*

Read at a meeting of the London branch on the 9th of March, 1918.

References

page 242 note † A School Algebra, by H. S. Hall.

page 242 note * See Mathematical Gazette, vol. v. p. 179.

page 245 note * On this point Professor Nunn has anticipated me. Since this paper was written I have found the expansions of the sine and cosine treated in the same way on pages 308 and 309 of his Exercises in Algebra, Part II.