Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge / 2024 / Paper 1 / 15 / c / i / Solution

The Maclaurin series of the hyperbolic cosine is $\cosh x=1+x^2/2+x^4/24+O(x^6)$. The binomial series with exponent $-1/2$ gives $(1+u{)}^{-1/2}=1-u/2+3u^2/8+O(u^3)$. Substituting $u=x^2/2+x^4/24+O(x^6)$ yieldsThese are the first three nonzero terms; the remainder is written in Big O notation.