Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge / 2002 / Paper 2 / 9 / Solution

The Taylor expansion about $a$ has coefficients given by the successive derivatives at $a$:When $f$ is $N+1$ times continuously differentiable on the interval between $a$ and $x$, Taylor's theorem gives $R_N(x)=f^{(N+1)}(\xi )(x-a{)}^{N+1}/(N+1)!$ for an intermediate point $\xi$. If the remainders tend to zero, this yields the infinite Taylor series $f(x)={\sum }_{k=0}^{\infty }{f}^{(k)}(a)(x-a{)}^k/k!$. The three functions below are real analytic near zero after taking the continuous extension in part (i).