Saturday, 12 January 2019

calculus - Evaluate the series suminftyn=0fracn21n!fracxnn1



I would like to show that the following sum converges xR as well as calculate the sum:




n=0n21n!xnn1




First for the coefficient:




n21n!(n1)=n+1n!



Then, what I did was to try and formulate this series to a series which I know:



n=0n21n!xnn1=n=0(n+1n!)xn==1xn=0(n+1)2xn+1(n+1)!



I have ended up with this formula, which reminds me somehow the expansion of the exponential ex



n=0xnn!=ex




but I cannot see how the term (n+1)2 affects the result.



Thanks.


Answer



One should instead notice that



n+1n!=nn!+1n!=1(n1)!+1n!



And then we get the well-known series expansion for ex.



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