Prove that the error of the Taylor expansion of satisfies the following inequality.
Proof. Since the derivatives of are always
, or
we know that for
we have
. (In other words, the
st derivative is bounded above by 1 and below by
.) Therefore, we can apply Theorem 7.7 (p. 280 of Apostol) to estimate the error in Taylor’s formula at
with
and
. For
this gives us
Next, (from the second part of Theorem 7.7) if we have
the last inequality is false cause |E|>0 and x^{2n+1}<0
For the x<0 part, shouldn't 'x' be '-x'? The definition uses |x|.