How do you find the Maclaurin series of $f(x)=(1-x)^-2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2014-10-02T08:31:58

By taking the derivative of a geometric power series,

$f(x)=sum_{n=1}^infty nx^{n-1}$ .

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Since

$1/{1-x}=sum_{n=0}^infty x^n$ ,

by taking the derivative,

$1/{(1-x)^2}=sum_{n=0}^infty nx^{n-1}=sum_{n=1}^infty nx^{n-1}$ .

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