Re: Taylor vector expansion?

"Matt" <mmmabos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to do a Taylor expansion for a function f(x) where x is a
> p dimensional vector around some vector p0? (not just around one
> component of x)
>
> thanks, matt.

Yes. You will find this in almost any book on vector calculus. It get's
messy for more than 1 or 2 terms, though. Equation 37 on this page
(http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TaylorSeries.html) shows the expression


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