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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 ia Paper 1 11E ii Solution by
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From , differentiating successively gives and whenever those derivatives have been constructed. Starting with twice differentiability, this relation supplies the next two derivatives at each stage. Thus is infinitely differentiable, and its origin series isFor a fixed , both and are bounded on the compact interval between zero and , say by . Every higher derivative is one of these two functions. Taylor's theorem, with the remainder just proved, therefore bounds the order- remainder by , which tends to zero: its consecutive positive-term ratio is . Hence the series converges to for every real . It also gives by the usual hyperbolic-function series.
At any other centre , apply the proved origin result to , which also satisfies . Its even derivatives at zero are , and its odd ones are . ConsequentlyThis proves convergence at every centre without assuming that smoothness alone implies equality to a Taylor series.
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