Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2001/ia/paper-1/11d/i/solution

By continuity of at , for any choose such that whenever . Twice using the fundamental theorem of calculus gives the remainder as
The inner difference is and has modulus at most . Integrating this bound over the interval between and proves, for either sign of ,
This is the local quadratic Taylor remainder estimate. The given may enter the bound on the second derivative; no stronger differentiability assumption is needed.

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