Taylor Series Expansions
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- Subject: [mg32372] Taylor Series Expansions
- From: Joe Helfand <jhelfand at wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 03:31:08 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Maryland College Park
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Wow!
I have definitely come to the right place. Thanks for all the
responses. Using the Map built in function solved my problem (it still
took a bit, so you can imagine what I was dealing with). Here is
something else which I have wasted some time on not knowing as much
about Mathematica as I should. It has to do with multi-variable Taylor
series expansion. Mathematica has a built in Series function. But when
you use this for multi-variable functions, it doesn't do quite what I'd
expect. Let's say I have a function for two fariables, and I want to
expand to 2nd order. When I use Series, it expands each varible to
second order, but includes the cross terms, which I want to belong to a
4th order expansion. For example:
In[1172]:=
Normal[Series[Exp[x y], {x, 0, 2}, {y, 0, 2}]]
Out[1172]=
\!\(1 + x\ y + \(x\^2\ y\^2\)\/2\)
But what I really want is just 1 + x y, where if I go to fourth order,
then I'll take the x^2 y^2 / 2. I had to take some time to write some
sloppy Taylor series expansion functions that did what I wanted. Is
there a way to get around this problem or do you have any suggestions?
Thanks Again,
Joe
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