Lecture 6

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

  1. Manipulate sums, using the distributive, associative, and commutative laws.
  2. Determine a closed form expression for a sum, using the perturbation method.
  3. Determine a closed form expression for a sum, using the method from differential calculus discussed in class.

Reading assignment

  1. Sec 2.3.
  2. Sec 2.4, pages 34 and 35.

Exercises and review questions


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