A Problem

DOI10.2307/2974881MaRDI QIDQ4345035zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 17 July 1997

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2974881

zbMATH Keywords

series expansiontrigonometric functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

One-variable calculus (26A06) Convergence and divergence of series and sequences (40A05) Series expansions (e.g., Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series) (41A58)

Review text

The problem discussed is to expand \(\sin x\) and \(\cos x\) into power series, using from calculus only the facts that \(\lim_{x\to 0}(\sin x)/x= 1\) and \(\lim_{m\to\infty}(x^m)/m!= 0\). The author gives the very elegant geometric solution which he learned in 1935 as an eight grade pupil from his teacher Yakov Stapanovich Chakovsky, who unfortunately perished during Stalin's reign of terror of the later 1930s.

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